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Nature, Culture and Gender

by Carol P. MacCormack, Marilyn Strathern
$40.29
Nature, Culture and Gender - Thryft
Nature, Culture and Gender - Thryft

Nature vs. culture: Challenging western dichotomies.

This book is a must-read for those interested in exploring the history and development of the binary classification of nature and culture. The author challenges the notion that this dichotomy is universal by presenting ethnographic evidence from non-western cultures. Additionally, the book explores the link between this classification and the association between females and nature and males and culture. This book is recommended for those interested in anthropology, structuralist thought, and women's studies.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Nature, Culture and Gender

by Carol P. MacCormack, Marilyn Strathern
$40.29
ISBN: 9780521280013
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: $72.55
Authors: Carol P. MacCormack, Marilyn Strathern
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 1980-12-31
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Nature, Sociology
Related Topics: Social Justice, Gender, Feminism, Social Issues
Goodreads rating: 3.82
(rated by 22 readers)

Description

Categories of analysis in the social sciences include the binary pair 'nature' and 'culture', as defined by western societies. Anthropologists have often imputed these categories to the world-views of non-western people and the construct has acquired the status of a universal. It has been further argued that culture (that which is regulated by human thought and technology) is universally valued as being superior to nature (the unregulated); and that female is universally associated with nature (and is therefore inferior and to be dominated) and male with culture. The essays in this volume question these propositions. They examine the assumptions behind them analytically and historically, and present ethnographic evidence to show that the dichotomy between nature and culture, and its association with a contrast between the sexes, is a particularity of western thought. The book is a commentary on the way anthropologists working within the western tradition have projected their own ideas on to the thought systems of other peoples. Its form is largely anthropological, but it will have a wide appeal within the social sciences and the humanities, especially among those interested in structuralist thought and women's studies.
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Nature vs. culture: Challenging western dichotomies.

This book is a must-read for those interested in exploring the history and development of the binary classification of nature and culture. The author challenges the notion that this dichotomy is universal by presenting ethnographic evidence from non-western cultures. Additionally, the book explores the link between this classification and the association between females and nature and males and culture. This book is recommended for those interested in anthropology, structuralist thought, and women's studies.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.