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Marilyn Strathern

A life in books

37 cataloged contributions

1971–2020 across 29 high-confidence dated works

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Official and unofficial courts: legal assumptions and expectations in a highlands community.
An early work in this author overview with a supported 1972 catalog date.
02
Women in between: female roles in a male world: Mount Hagen, New Guinea.
A clearly attributed work with a supported 1972 catalog date.
03
No money on our skins: Hagen migrants in Port Moresby
A clearly attributed work with a supported 1975 catalog date.
04
Nature, culture, and gender
A clearly attributed work with a supported 1980 catalog date.
05
Kinship at the core: an anthropology of Elmdon a village in north-west Essex in the nineteen-sixties
A clearly attributed work with a supported 1981 catalog date.
06
Dealing with Inequality: Analysing Gender Relations in Melanesia and Beyond
A clearly attributed work with a supported 1987 catalog date.

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Kinship, Law and the Unexpected: Relatives are Always a Surprise

2005

6 cataloged editions

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Shifting contexts: transformations in anthropological knowledge

1995

4 cataloged editions

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Relations An Anthropological Account

2020

3 cataloged editions

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Dealing with Inequality: Analysing Gender Relations in Melanesia and Beyond

1987

3 cataloged editions

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2004

3 cataloged editions

shelves: 1
reviews: 0
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The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia (Studies in Melanesian Anthropology, Vol. 6)

1988

3 cataloged editions

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Big men and great men: personifications of power in Melanesia

1991

With Maurice Godelier

4 cataloged editions

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Before and After Gender

2016

2 cataloged editions

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Kinship at the core: an anthropology of Elmdon a village in north-west Essex in the nineteen-sixties

1981

2 cataloged editions

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Property, substance, and effect: anthropological essays on persons and things

1999

2 cataloged editions

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Partial connections

1991

2 cataloged editions

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Women in between: female roles in a male world: Mount Hagen, New Guinea.

1972

2 cataloged editions

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Reproducing the future: essays on anthropology, kinship, and the new reproductive technologies

1992

2 cataloged editions

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Audit Cultures Anthropological Studies in Accuntability Ethics and Academy

2000

6 cataloged editions

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Kinship, Law and the Unexpected: Relatives are Always a Surprise

2005

With Marilyn Strathern

2 cataloged editions

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Rationales of ownership: ethnographic studies of transactions and claims to ownership in contemporary Papua New Guinea

2001

With James Leach

2 cataloged editions

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Transactions And Creations: Property Debates And The Stimulus Of Melanesia

2004

With Eric Hirsch

2 cataloged editions

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Official and unofficial courts: legal assumptions and expectations in a highlands community.

1972

1 cataloged edition

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reviews: 0
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Commons and Borderlands: Working Papers on Interdisciplinarity, Accountibility and the Flow of Knowledge

2003

1 cataloged edition

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The gender of the gift: problems with women and problems with society in Melanesia

1988

1 cataloged edition

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reviews: 0
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No money on our skins: Hagen migrants in Port Moresby

1975

1 cataloged edition

shelves: 0
reviews: 0
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Nature, culture, and gender

1980

1 cataloged edition

shelves: 0
reviews: 0
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Reproducing the future: essays on anthropology, kinship, and the new reproductive technologies

1992

1 cataloged edition

shelves: 0
reviews: 0
lists: 0
quotes: 0

After nature: English kinship in the late twentieth century

1992

1 cataloged edition

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