Marilyn Strathern
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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
- Self-Decoration in Mount Hagen, 1971.
- Women in Between, Seminar Press, 1972.
- 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, Essex, 1981.
- The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia, University of California Press, 1988.
- Partial Connections, Savage, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1991; repr., Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2004.
- After Nature: English Kinship in the Late Twentieth Century, 1992.
- The Relation: Issues in Complexity and Scale, Prickly Pear Press, 1995.
- Property, Substance and Effect: Anthropological Essays on Persons and Things, London: Athlone Press, 1999. Collected essays from 1992-98.
- Commons and Borderlands: Working Papers on Interdisciplinarity, Accountibility and the Flow of Knowledge, 2004.
- editor, with Eric Hirsch, Transactions and creations: property debates and the stimulus of Melanesia, Oxford: Berghahn.
- editor, Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy, Routledge, 2000.
- Kinship, Law and the Unexpected: Relatives are Always a Surprise, Cambridge University Press, 2005.