The Gender Of The Gift
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The Gender Of The Gift
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Author : Marilyn Strathern
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1988-09-15
The Gender Of The Gift written by Marilyn Strathern and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-09-15 with Social Science categories.
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.
Women And The Gift
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Author : Morny Joy
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2013-09-17
Women And The Gift written by Morny Joy and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-17 with Religion categories.
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. In the light of philosophical work by Mauss, Lévi-Strauss, Derrida, and Bataille, Women and the Gift reflects how women respond to the notion of the gift and relationships of giving. This collection evaluates and critiques previous work on the gift and also responds to how women view care, fidelity, generosity, trust, and independence in light of the gift.
The Gift Of The Other
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Author : Lisa Guenther
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
The Gift Of The Other written by Lisa Guenther and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Social Science categories.
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.
The Gift
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Author : Aafke E. Komter
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 1996
The Gift written by Aafke E. Komter and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Social Science categories.
What moves us to give gifts to other people? The Gift brings together perspectives on gift exchange and reciprocity from different social scientific disciplines. The first part of this book contains anthropological and sociological 'classics' on gift giving and reciprocity. In the second part the focus is on social psychological theories, and on empirical research on gift giving in Western society. Finally, the main concepts underlying gift exchange - reciprocity, self-interest and altruism - are discussed. Here, the focus is on fundamental assumptions about human nature. Altruism and self-interest turn out to be much more interwoven than we are inclined to think.
Marriage And Inequality In Classless Societies
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Author : Jane Fishburne Collier
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1993-02-01
Marriage And Inequality In Classless Societies written by Jane Fishburne Collier and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-02-01 with Family & Relationships categories.
This study presents three ideal-typic models for analyzing inequality in kin-based, non-stratified societies that are commonly described as bands, tribes or ranked societies (but not chiefdoms). Each model discusses the organization of inequality associated with a particular way of validating marriages. The book is a serious and complex attempt to understand the bases and dynamics of inequality in classless societies. It offers a sophisticated argument for the position that there is a culturally-structured basis for women's universal subordination. An important strength of Collier's theoretical interpretation is that it makes the case for universality of subordination without slipping into biological reductionism.
The Gift Relationship Reissue
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Author : Titmuss, Richard
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2019-09-01
The Gift Relationship Reissue written by Titmuss, Richard and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-01 with Political Science categories.
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.
The Gift
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Author : Hilda Doolittle
language : en
Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
Release Date : 1984
The Gift written by Hilda Doolittle and has been published by Pioneer Drama Service, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with categories.
The Gift
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Author : The Macat Team
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2017-07-05
The Gift written by The Macat Team and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Marcel Mauss’s 1925 essay The Gift is an enduring classic of sociological and anthropological analysis by a thinker who is one of the founding fathers of modern anthropology. The Gift exploits Mauss’s high-level analytical and interpretative skills to produce a brilliant investigation of the forms, meanings, and structures of gift-giving across a range of societies. Mauss, along with many others, had noted that in a wide range of societies – especially those without monetary exchange or legal structures – gift-giving and receiving was carried out according to strict customs and unwritten laws. What he sought to do in The Gift was to analyse the structures that governed how and when gifts were given, received, and reciprocated in order to grasp what implicit and unspoken reasons governed these structures. He also wanted to apply his interpretative skills to asking what such exchanges meant, in order to explore the implications his analysis might have for modern, western cultures. In Mauss’s investigations, it became clear that gift-giving is, in many cultures, a crucial structural force, binding people together in a web of reciprocal commitments generated by the laws of gifting. Indeed, he concluded, gifts can be seen as the ‘glue’ of society..
The Gift Of Gender
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Author : Judith K. Balswick
language : en
Publisher: Chariot Victor Publishing
Release Date : 1991
The Gift Of Gender written by Judith K. Balswick and has been published by Chariot Victor Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Sex role categories.
Eight sessions on what it means to be women and men in today's society.
Dangerous Gifts
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Author : Deborah Lyons
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2012-06-01
Dangerous Gifts written by Deborah Lyons and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-01 with History categories.
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.