Marilyn Strathern

An original and compelling history of the northern European medieval renaissance in art, science and philosophy, which rivalled its Italian counterpar

Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was a period which

This ethnographic text examines the attitudes of the Hagen people and analyses the power of women in their male-dominated system. It cites case studie

Challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials, focusing on a problem normally

Challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials, focusing on a problem normally

Marilyn Strathern provides a critical account of anthropology's key concept of relation and its usage and significance in the English-speaking world,

A leading social anthropologist examines early 21st-century interests in interdisciplinarity, with particular attention to the conjunction of science

This book takes the idea of 'village' not for granted, but as a dogma to be accounted for.

To suppose anthropological analysis can shift between global and local perspectives may well imply that the two co-exist as broader and narrower horiz

An examination of the contexts in which people make different orders of knowledge as a prelude to questioning assumptions about the size of knowledge

With contributions from leading academics from a range of study areas such as anthropology, politics and management studies, this volume is opening up

Argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike. Th

Marilyn Strathern provides a critical account of anthropology's key concept of relation and its usage and significance in the English-speaking world,

It is generally accepted that the European Renaissance began in Italy. However, a historical transformation of similar magnitude also took place in no

In a bold theoretical move, propertyA" is put alongside two other terms: transactionsA" and creations.A" The former have a place in the anthropolog

The societies of Melanesia have been a constant stimulus to anthropological theory. In this collection of essays, anthropologists who have worked in a

A sweeping history of the Age of Reason, which shows how, although it was a time of progress in many areas, it was also an era of brutality and intol

How can we hold in the same view both cultural or historical constructs and generalities about social existence? In response to this anthropological c

How can we hold in the same view both cultural or historical constructs and generalities about social existence? In response to this anthropological c