In Before and After Gender, Strathern writes that she “brings writing to bear on other writing in order to shift the viewpoint.” From the beginning, she has not so much shifted viewpoints as entirely retooled their optics, making viewpoints undo other viewpoints, and here she does it for gender and all its bumptious ethnographic …
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2015 338 pages ISBN: 9780986132513 Price: $25.00 Buy This Book Download the PDF Table of Contents List of Contributors vii INTRODUCTION Translating worlds: The epistemological space of translation William F. Hanks and Carlo Severi 1 CHAPTER ONE The space of translation William F. Hanks 21 CHAPTER TWO Transmutating beings: A proposal for an anthropology …
“The Gift is like a river that carries an immense mass of facts set in motion by Mauss’ vision. Guyer proves to be a skilled guide in navigating its perilous currents by giving us a nuanced translation that explores the text’s most secluded coves.” — Maurice Godelier, author of The Enigma of the Gift …
