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The Gender of the Gift
Language: en
Pages: 448
Authors: Marilyn Strathern
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988-09-15 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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In the most original and ambitious synthesis yet undertaken in Melanesian scholarship, Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations have been a particular cas
The Gender of the Gift
Language: en
Pages: 439
Authors: Marilyn Strathern
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations in Melanesia have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and femini
Women and the Gift
Language: en
Pages: 245
Authors: Morny Joy
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-17 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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Recent inquiries into the concept of the gift have been largely male-dominated and thus have ignored important aspects of the gift from a woman's point of view.
Dangerous Gifts
Language: en
Pages: 183
Authors: Deborah Lyons
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-01 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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Deianeira sends her husband Herakles a poisoned robe. Eriphyle trades the life of her husband Amphiaraos for a golden necklace. Atreus’s wife Aerope gives awa
The Gift Relationship
Language: en
Pages: 356
Authors: Titmuss, Richard
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-11 - Publisher: Policy Press

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Richard Titmuss (1907-1973) was a pioneer in the field of social administration (now social policy). In this reissued classic, listed by the New York Times as o