The Gender of the Gift - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gender of the Gift write by Marilyn Strathern. This book was released on 1988-09-15. The Gender of the Gift available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. The book treats with equal seriousness—and with equal good humor—the insights of Western social science, feminist politics, and ethnographic reporting, in order to rethink the representation of Melanesian social and cultural life. This makes The Gender of the Gift one of the most sustained critiques of cross-cultural comparison that anthropology has seen, and one of its most spirited vindications.
The Gender of the Gift
The Gender of the Gift - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gender of the Gift write by Marilyn Strathern. This book was released on 1988. The Gender of the Gift available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Gift of the Other
The Gift of the Other - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gift of the Other write by Lisa Guenther. This book was released on 2012-02-01. The Gift of the Other available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the 2007 Symposium Book Award presented by Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy The Gift of the Other brings together a philosophical analysis of time, embodiment, and ethical responsibility with a feminist critique of the way women's reproductive capacity has been theorized and represented in Western culture. Author Lisa Guenther develops the ethical and temporal implications of understanding birth as the gift of the Other, a gift which makes existence possible, and already orients this existence toward a radical responsibility for Others. Through an engagement with the work of Levinas, Beauvoir, Arendt, Irigaray, and Kristeva, the author outlines an ethics of maternity based on the givenness of existence and a feminist politics of motherhood which critiques the exploitation of maternal generosity.
Dangerous Gifts
Dangerous Gifts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dangerous Gifts write by Deborah Lyons. This book was released on 2012-06-01. Dangerous Gifts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 away the token of his sovereignty, a lamb with a golden fleece, to his brother Thyestes, who has seduced her. Gifts and exchanges always involve a certain risk in any culture, but in the ancient Greek imagination, women and gifts appear to be a particularly deadly combination. This book explores the role of gender in exchange as represented in ancient Greek culture, including Homeric epic and tragedy, non-literary texts, and iconographic and historical evidence of various kinds. Using extensive insights from anthropological work on marriage, kinship, and exchange, as well as ethnographic parallels from other traditional societies, Deborah Lyons probes the gendered division of labor among both gods and mortals, the role of marriage (and its failure) in transforming women from objects to agents of exchange, the equivocal nature of women as exchange-partners, and the importance of the sister-brother bond in understanding the economic and social place of women in ancient Greece. Her findings not only enlarge our understanding of social attitudes and practices in Greek antiquity but also demonstrate the applicability of ethnographic techniques and anthropological theory to the study of ancient societies.
The Gift Relationship (Reissue)
The Gift Relationship (Reissue) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gift Relationship (Reissue) write by Titmuss, Richard. This book was released on 2019-09-01. The Gift Relationship (Reissue) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 one of the 10 most important books of the year when it was first published in 1970, he compares blood donation in the US and UK, contrasting the British system of reliance on voluntary donors to the American one in which the blood supply is in the hands of for-profit enterprises, concluding that a system based on altruism is both safer and more economically efficient. Titmuss’s argument about how altruism binds societies together has proved a powerful tool in the analysis of welfare provision. His analysis is even more topical now in an age of ever changing health care policy and at a time when health and welfare systems are under sustained attack from many quarters.
