Making Incomplete 1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19010131 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marilyn Strathern |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | 41-51 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-06 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Carved Flesh / Cast Selves (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781003135067-2 |
| OpenAlex | W2757791367 |
| ISBN | 9781003135067 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Feminist scholarship has questioned the analytical distinction between political and domestic domains and rewritten the ideologies of domination and resistance. Much anthropological debate in gender analysis has had to deal with the apparent fact that, irrespective of the powers they may exercise, women are often symbolised as less than fully social beings. Evidence lies in their exclusion from public affairs or from the rituals of collective life. An example of this style of thinking is the concern of descent-group theory with the mediating role of corporate groups such as lineages in effecting social adulthood. Western metaphors of socialisation imply that the adult is a ‘completed’ person, and that education of some kind is crucial to this development. The long-established anthropological idea that ritual activity displays ‘society’ to the individual has implications for a region such as Melanesia where initiation rituals are centrally concerned with the definition of gender
Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · New Caledonia Indigenous Studies
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2020 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |