Marilyn Strathern

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

Books

• 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, 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, xv+422 pp, ARG. Review: Biersack (Oceania).
  • O gênero da dádiva: problemas com as mulheres e problemas com a sociedade na Melanésia, trans. André Villalobos, Campinas: UNICAMP, 2006, 530 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)

• Partial Connections, Savage, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1991; new ed., Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2004, ARG.
  • Pisanje antropologije, trans. Marija Zidar, afterw. Maja Petrović-Šteger, Ljubljana: Študentska založba, 2008, 283 pp. (Slovenian)
  • Bubunteki tsunagari [部分的つながり], Suiseisha, 2015, 349 pp. (Japanese)
  • Bubunjeok in yeongyeoldeul [부분적인 연결들 : 문명 너머의 사고를 찾아서], Paju: O wol ui Bom, 2019. (Korean)

• 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, ARG.

• Reproducing the Future. Essay on Anthropology, Kinship and the New Reproductive Technologies, Manchester University Press, 1992.

• The Relation: Issues in Complexity and Scale, Prickly Pear Press, 1995, 47 pp, ARG.

• editor, Shifting Contexts: Transformations in Anthropological Knowledge, 1995, ARG.
  • Fora de contexto: as ficções persuasivas da antropologia, São Paulo: Terceiro Nome, 2013, 160 pp. Review: Kauê (Horizontes antropol). (Brazilian Portuguese)

• Property, Substance and Effect: Anthropological Essays on Persons and Things. Collected Essays 1992–96, London: Athlone Press, 1999, ARG; repr. as Property, Substance, and Effect: Anthropological Essays on Persons and Things, intro. Eric Hirsch, Chicago: HAU Books, 2022, 328 pp. Publisher.

• 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, ARG.

• 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, ARG.
  • Parentesco, direito e o inesperado. Parentes são sempre uma surpresa, trans. Stella Zagatto Paterniani, São Paulo: UNESP, 2015, 424 pp. Publisher. (Brazilian Portuguese)

• Learning to See in Melanesia: Lectures given in the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University, 1993–2008, Manchester: HAU, 2013, ARG.

• O efeito etnográfico: e outros ensaios, ed. Florencia Ferrari, trans. Iracema Dulley, Jamille Pinheiro and Luísa Valentini, São Paulo: Cosac Naify, 2014, 576 pp, ARG; repr., São Paulo: Ubu, 2017, 544 pp. Publisher. Publisher. Review: Savelli (Horizontes Antropol). (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 1973-1974.

• Relations: An Anthropological Account, Duke University Press, 2020, 288 pp, ARG. Publisher.

• Kansa bunka no jinruigaku: akauntabiriti rinri gakujutsukai [監查文化の人類学 : アカウンタビリティ、倫理、学術界], Tokyo: Suiseisha, 2023, 440 pp. (Japanese)

Articles (selection)

• "The Limits of Auto-Anthropology", in Anthropology at Home, ed. Anthony Jackson, New York: Tavistock, 1987, pp 16-37.

• "Cutting the Network", The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 2:3, Sep 1996, pp 517-535.

• "The Tyranny of Transparency", British Educational Research Journal 26:3, 2000, pp 309-321.

Literature

• Ashley Lebner (ed.), Redescribing Relations: Strathernian Conversations on Ethnography, Knowledge and Politics, afterw. Marilyn Strathern, New York: Berghahn, 2017, 262 pp. Publisher.

• Paul Boyce, EJ Gonzalez-Polledo, Silvia Posocco (eds), Queering Knowledge: Analytics, Devices and Investments after Marilyn Strathern, Routledge, 2019, 218 pp. Publisher.

See also

• Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

Links

• Wikipedia