{"title":"Books by Marilyn Strathern","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780520072022","title":"The Gender of the Gift (Paper)","description":"In the most original and ambitious synthesis yet undertaken in Melanesian scholarship, Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike. The book treats with equal seriousness - and with equal good humor - the insights of Western social science, feminist politics, and ethnographic reporting, in order to rethink the representation of Melanesian social and cultural life. This makes \"The Gender of the Gift\" one of the most sustained critiques of cross-cultural comparison that anthropology has seen, and one of its most spirited vindications.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56291488792949,"sku":"9780520072022","price":31.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780520072022_f6cb2cb0-76e8-43dd-b566-747035f2dc37.jpg?v=1786014061"},{"product_id":"9780986132537","title":"Before and After Gender – Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life","description":"Written in the early 1970s amidst widespread debate over the causes of gender inequality, Marilyn Strathern’s Before and After Gender was intended as a widely accessible analysis of gender as a powerful cultural code and sex as a defining mythology. But when the series for which it was written unexpectedly folded, the manuscript went into storage, where it remained for more than four decades. This book finally brings it to light, giving the long-lost feminist work—accompanied here by an afterword from Judith Butler—an overdue spot in feminist history.                  Strathern incisively engages some of the leading feminist thinkers of the time, including Shulamith Firestone, Simone de Beauvoir, Ann Oakley, and Kate Millett. Building with characteristic precision toward a bold conclusion in which she argues that we underestimate the materializing grammars of sex and gender at our own peril, she offers a powerful challenge to the intransigent mythologies of sex that still plague contemporary society. The result is a sweeping display of Strathern’s vivid critical thought and an important contribution to feminist studies that has gone unpublished for far too long.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295622869365,"sku":"9780986132537","price":26.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780986132537_d3f11ea8-ca49-4c0b-a0a8-3d24fd10a888.jpg?v=1786016132"},{"product_id":"9780999157077","title":"Property, Substance, and Effect","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn engaging essays, celebrated anthropologist Marilyn Strathern reflects on the complexities of social life. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eProperty, Substance, and Effect\u003c\/i\u003e draws on Marilyn Strathern's longstanding interest in the reification of social relations. If the world is shrinking in terms of resources and access to them, it is expanding in terms of new candidates for proprietorship. How new relations are brought into being is among the many questions about property, ownership, and knowledge that these essays bring together.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Twenty years have not diminished the interest in the book's opening challenge: if one were inventing a method of enquiry by which to configure the complexity of social life, one might wish to invent something like the anthropologist's ethnographic practice. A wide range of studies deliberately brings into conversation claims people make on one another through relations imagined in the form of body-substance along with the increasing visibility of conceptual or intellectual work as property. Whether one lives in Papua New Guinea or Great Britain, categories of knowledge are being dissolved and reformed at a tempo that calls for reflection-and for the kind of lateral reflection afforded through the \"ethnographic effect.\"","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295651934581,"sku":"9780999157077","price":24.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780999157077_08424bd7-1639-43de-97b2-cee60457e496.jpg?v=1786016352"},{"product_id":"9781478008354","title":"Relations","description":"The concept of relation holds a privileged place in how anthropologists think and write about the social and cultural lives they study. In \u003ci\u003eRelations\u003c\/i\u003e, eminent anthropologist Marilyn Strathern provides a critical account of this key concept and its usage and significance in the English-speaking world. Exploring relation's changing articulations and meanings over the past three centuries, Strathern shows how the historical idiosyncrasy of using an epistemological term for kinspersons (“relatives”) was bound up with evolving ideas about knowledge-making and kin-making. She draws on philosophical debates about relation-such as Leibniz's reaction to Locke-and what became its definitive place in anthropological exposition, elucidating the underlying assumptions and conventions of its use. She also calls for scholars in anthropology and beyond to take up the limitations of Western relational thinking, especially against the background of present ecological crises and interest in multispecies relations. In weaving together analyses of kin-making and knowledge-making, Strathern opens up new ways of thinking about the contours of epistemic and relational possibilities while questioning the limits and potential of ethnographic methods.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312467882357,"sku":"9781478008354","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781478008354_351e12f3-eeb8-4738-8c26-d5e4effb1c37.jpg?v=1786020906"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-marilyn-strathern.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}