Marilyn Strathern

Dame Ann Marilyn Strathern (born March 6, 1941 ) is a British anthropologist and former professor at the William Wyse Chair of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University . A large part of her research deals with analyzes of gender relations in different cultures (especially in Papua New Guinea ), as well as the ethnological handling of gifts.

Life

Strathern was a professor at the Australian National University in Canberra and at the University of California, Berkeley . From 1985 to 1993 she taught anthropology at the University of Manchester , from 1994 to 2009 she researched and taught at the William Wyse Chair in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge . Henrietta Moore was her successor .

Strathern is divorced and has three children.

Awards

• Member of the British Academy (1987)
• Member of the Academia Europaea (1990)
• Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1996)
• Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2001)
• British Academy Leverhulme Medal (2012)
• Member of the American Philosophical Society (2016)
• Balzan Prize (2018)

Fonts

• (with Andrew Strathern): Self-Decoration in Mount Hagen. Duckworth, London 1971, ISBN 0-7156-0516-X ( Art and Society Series ).
• Women in Between. Female roles in a male world. Mount Hagen, New Guinea. Seminar Press, London et al. 1972, ISBN 0-12-913950-5 ( Seminar Studies in Anthropology 2).
• No Money on Our Skins. Hagen Migrants in Port Moresby. New Guinea Research Unit, Port Moresby 1975, ISBN 0-85818-027-8 ( New Guinea Research Bulletin 61).
• Kinship at the Core. An Anthropology of Elmdon, a Village in North-West Essex in the Nineteen-Sixties. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1981, ISBN 0-521-23360-7 .
• The Gender of the Gift. Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia. University of California Press, Berkeley CA et al. 1988, ISBN 0-520-07202-2 ( Studies in Melanesian Anthropology 6).
• Partial connections. Rowman and Littlefield, Savage MD 1991, ISBN 0-8476-7697-8 ( ASAO Special Publications 3), (Updated edition. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek CA 2004, ISBN 0-7591-0759-9 ).
• After nature. English Kinship in the Late Twentieth Century. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1992, ISBN 0-521-42680-4 ( The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures 1989).
• Property, substance and effect. Anthropological essays on persons and things. Collected essays 1992-96. Athlone Press, London et al. 1999, ISBN 0-485-11534-4 .
• (Ed.): Audit Cultures. Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy. Routledge, London et al. 2000, ISBN 0-415-23326-7 ( European Association of Social Anthropologists ).
• Commons and borderlands. Working papers on Interdisciplinarity, Accountability and the Flow of Knowledge. Kingston, Oxon 2004, ISBN 0-9545572-2-0 .
• (Ed. With Eric Hirsch): Transactions and Creations. Property Debates and the Stimulus of Melanesia. Berghahn, New York NY et al. 2004, ISBN 1-57181-615-1 .
• Kinship, Law and the Unexpected. Relatives are often a surprise. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2005, ISBN 0-521-61509-7 .

Web links

• 'A Community of Critics' RAI Huxley Memorial Lecture, given at University College, London, 8th December 2004 (film)