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The concept of relation holds a privileged place in how anthropologists think and write about the social and cultural lives they study. In Relations , eminent anthropologist Marilyn Strathern provides a critical account of this key concept and its usage a
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. Th
Updated with a new Preface, this seminal work challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials. Marilyn Strathern focuses on a problem normally regarded as commonplace; that of scale an