Download or read book The Gender of the Gift written by Marilyn Strathern and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations in Melanesia 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 humour, the insights of Western social science, feminist politics, and ethnographic reporting, in order to rethink the representation of Melanesian social and cultural life.