Nesta coletânea de 15 dos artigos mais influentes da antropóloga britânica Marilyn
Strathern, publicados entre 1980 e 2004, a autora de O gênero da dádiva aborda temas …

This review article shows that, both empirically and theoretically, socio-cultural
anthropologists have much to contribute to interdisciplinary debates concerning property …

A few centuries ago, capitalism set in motion an explosion of economic productivity. Markets
and private property had existed for millennia, but what other key institutions fostered …

In the most original and ambitious synthesis yet undertaken in Melanesian scholarship,
Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of …

In this pathbreaking book, a well-known feminist and sociologist--who is also the Founding
Editor of Gender & Society--challenges our most basic assumptions about gender. Judith …

The question of women's land rights has a relatively young history in India. This paper briefly
traces that history before examining why gendering the land question remains critical, and …

How can we hold in the same view both cultural or historical constructs and generalities
about social existence? Kinship, Law and the Unexpected takes up an issue at the heart of …

Este libro ofrece una novedosa y amplia consideración de la teoría feminista del
patriarcado, incorporando relevantes aportaciones sobre una concepción materialista y …

The Hindu custom of dowry has long been blamed for the murder of wives and female
infants in India. In this highly provocative book, Veena Oldenburg argues that these killings …

This book presents a feminist critique and reconstruction of the political economy of
contemporary family farming at a time when the significance of household and kinship to the …