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  • Partial Connections

    by Marilyn Strathern ...
    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 and proportion. She combines a wide-ranging interest in current theoretical issues with close attention to the cultural details of social life, ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Relations

    An Anthropological Account

    by Marilyn Strathern ...
    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 and significance in the English-speaking world. Exploring relation's changing articulations and meanings over the past three centuries, Strathern ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Property, Substance, and Effect

    Anthropological Essays on Persons and Things

    by Marilyn Strathern ...
    Series series Classics in Ethnographic Theory
    In engaging essays, celebrated anthropologist Marilyn Strathern reflects on the complexities of social life.Property, Substance, and Effect 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 ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Audit Cultures

    Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy

    by Marilyn Strathern ...
    Series series European Association of Social Anthropologists
    Do audit cultures deliver greater responsibility, or do they stifle creative thought? We are all increasingly subjected to auditing, and alongside that, subject to accountability for our behaviour and actions. Audit cultures pervade in the workplace, our governmental and public institutions as well as academia. However, audit practices themselves have consequences, beneficial and detrimental, that ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Difficult Attachments

    Anxieties of Kinship and Care

    by Kathryn E. Goldfarb, Sandra Bamford, Marilyn Strathern, Janelle S. Taylor, Jason Danely, Celeste Pang, Danilyn Rutherford, Noa Vaisman, Erika Finestone0, Dawa Lokyitsang1, Deborah A. Boehm2, Katie Kilroy-Marac3, Patrick McKenzie4, Brady G’Sell5, Julia Kowalski6, Sonia Yuhui Zhang7, Michael Lambek8, Professor Riché J. Daniel Barnes9 ...
    Anthropologists have long considered kinship as the basis for social solidarity. Indeed, the idea that kinship is grounded in positive sociality has found its way into most anthropological accounts and has served as an orienting framework directing decades of scholarly research. But what about when it is not? What about instances when kinship is anything but ‘warm and fuzzy’ but is characterized, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Before and After Gender

    Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life

    by Marilyn Strathern, Judith Butler ...
    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 ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Technologies of Procreation

    Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception

    by Jeanette Edwards, Sarah Franklin, Eric Hirsch, Frances Price, Marilyn Strathern ...
    Technologies of Procreation bridges the gap between medical technology and cultural values. It looks at the ways in which the 'technologies of procreation' affect society from an anthropological perspective. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Gifts and Commodities

    by C. A. Gregory ...
    Series series HAU - Classics in Ethnographic Theory
    Christopher A. Gregory’s Gifts and Commodities is one of the undisputed classics of economic anthropology. On its publication in 1982, it spurred intense, ongoing debates about gifts and gifting, value, exchange, and the place of political economy in anthropology.Gifts and Commodities is, at once, a critique of neoclassical economics and development theory, a critical history of colonial Papua New ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Shifting Contexts

    Edited by Marilyn Strathern ...
    Series series ASA Decennial Conference Series: The Uses of Knowledge
    To suppose anthropological analysis can shift between global and local perspectives may well imply that the two co-exist as broader and narrower horizons or contexts of knowledge. The proof for this can be found in ethnographic accounts where contrasts are repeatedly drawn between the encompassing realm and everyday life or in value systems which sumultaneously trivialise and aggrandise or in ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • When a Woman Becomes a Religious Dynasty

    The Samding Dorje Phagmo of Tibet

    by Hildegard Diemberger, , Ph.D. ...
    In the fifteenth century, the princess Chokyi Dronma was told by the leading spiritual masters of her time that she was the embodiment of the ancient Indian tantric deity Vajravarahi, known in Tibetan as Dorje Phagmo, the Thunderbolt Female Pig. After suffering a great personal tragedy, Chokyi Dronma renounced her royal status to become a nun, and, in turn, the tantric consort of three outstanding ... Read more

    $35.99 USD