Marilyn Strathern
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Dame Ann Marilyn Strathern (née Evans; 1941) is a British anthropologist, who has worked largely with the natives of Papua New Guinea and dealt with issues in the UK of reproductive technologies. She was William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge from 1993 to 2008, and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge from 1998 to 2009.
Works
- with Andrew Strathern, Self-Decoration in Mount Hagen, London: Duckworth, 1971.
- Women in Between: Female Roles in a Male World. Mount Hagen, New Guinea, London: Seminar Press, 1972, IA, ARG.
- No Money on Our Skins: Hagen Migrants in Port Moresby, 1975.
- editor, with C. MacCormack, Nature, Culture and Gender, 1980.
- Kinship at the Core: An Anthropology of Elmdon, a Village in North-West Essex in the Nineteen-Sixties, Cambridge University Press, 1981.
- The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia, University of California Press, 1988, ARG. Review: Biersack (Oceania 1991).
- Partial Connections, Savage, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1991; repr., Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2004, ARG.
- editor, with Maurice Godelier, Big Men and Great Men: Personifications of Power in Melanesia, Cambridge University Press, and Paris: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 1991.
- After Nature: English Kinship in the Late Twentieth Century, 1992.
- The Relation: Issues in Complexity and Scale, Prickly Pear Press, 1995, 47 pp., IA, ARG.
- Property, Substance and Effect: Anthropological Essays on Persons and Things. Collected essays 1992–96, London: Athlone Press, 1999.
- editor, Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy, Routledge, 2000.
- Commons and Borderlands: Working Papers on Interdisciplinarity, Accountibility and the Flow of Knowledge, Oxon: Kingston, 2004.
- editor, with Eric Hirsch, Transactions and Creations: Property Debates and the Stimulus of Melanesia, Oxford: Berghahn, 2004.
- Kinship, Law and the Unexpected: Relatives are Always a Surprise, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- Learning to See in Melanesia: Lectures given in the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University, 1993–2008, Manchester: HAU, 2013.
- O efeito etnográfico: e outros ensaios, ed. Florencia Ferrari, trans. Iracema Dulley, Jamille Pinheiro and Luísa Valentini, São Paulo: Cosac Naify, 2014. [1] (Brazilian Portuguese)
- Before and After Gender: Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life, ed. & intro. Sarah Franklin, afterw. Judith Butler, Chicago: HAU Books, 2016, xlv+311 pp. Written 1973-74.
