Marilyn Strathern

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Areas of Specialization: Social Anthropology
Marilyn Strathern was born in 1941 in North Wales. She attended Crofton Lane Primary School and Bromley High School before moving on to study Archaeology and Anthropology at Girton College. She earned her Ph.D. from Girton College in 1968.

Strathern has spent her career working with the people of Papua New Guinea. Her approach to feminist anthropology has yielded important scholarship, including Self-Interest and the Social Good: Some Implications of Hagen Gender Imagery and Dealing with Inequality: Analysing Gender Relations in Melanesia and Beyond. Her work on reproductive technology opened up new lines of inquiry into the female experience and how procreation impacts society.

Aside from her feminist scholarship she has also devoted time to the understanding of kinship bonds and community, in works such as Kinship, law and the unexpected: Relatives are always a surprise, and After nature: English kinship in the late twentieth century.

She was named a Fellow of the British Academy in 1997, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2001 and Mistress of Girton College in 1998. She is also a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and has been awarded the Viking Fund Medal, the Huxley Medal and the 30th Anniversary Independence Medal of Papua New Guinea.

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According to Wikipedia, Dame Ann Marilyn Strathern, DBE, FBA is a British anthropologist, who has worked largely with the Mount Hagen people 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.

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Marilyn Strathern's Published Works

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The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia (1990) (1806)
Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy (2000) (1504)
Cutting the Network (1996) (893)
The Tyranny of Transparency (2000) (702)
After Nature: English Kinship in the Late Twentieth Century (1992) (695)
Property, Substance and Effect: Anthropological Essays on Persons and Things (1999) (461)
Welcome to Cyberia: Notes on the Anthropology of Cyberculture [and Comments and Reply] (1994) (427)
Reproducing the Future: Essays on Anthropology, Kinship and the New Reproductive Technologies (1992) (420)
‘Improving ratings’: audit in the British University system (1997) (411)
Nature, culture and gender (1981) (395)
An Awkward Relationship: The Case of Feminism and Anthropology (1987) (347)
The Gender of the Gift (2019) (313)
Reproducing the Future: Anthropology, Kinship, and the New Reproductive Technologies (1992) (305)
The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim (1986) (292)
Kinship, Law and the Unexpected: Relatives are Always a Surprise (2005) (254)
Out of Context: The Persuasive Fictions of Anthropology (1990) (197)
Kinship, Law and the Unexpected: THE ARITHMETIC OF OWNERSHIP (2005) (193)
Big Men and Great Men: Personifications of Power in Melanesia (1992) (174)
Out of Context: The Persuasive Fictions of Anthropology [and Comments and Reply] (1987) (170)
Anthropology as Interpretive Quest [and Comments and Reply] (1987) (169)
Commons and borderlands : working papers on interdisciplinarity, accountability and the flow of knowledge (2004) (156)
Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception (1993) (144)
Women's Status in Egalitarian Society: Implications for Social Evolution [and Comments and Reply] (1978) (141)
Potential property. Intellectual rights and property in persons (1996) (126)
A community of critics? Thoughts on new knowledge* (2006) (123)
The relation : issues in complexity and scale (1995) (119)
Barter, exchange and value: Qualified value: the perspective of gift exchange (1992) (118)
Anthropology, by Comparison (2002) (115)
The Self in Self-Decoration (1979) (115)
Discovering 'Social Control' (1985) (100)
Self Decoration In Mount Hagen (1971) (99)
kinship and economy: constitutive orders of a provisional kind (1985) (91)
Women in between : female roles in a male world: Mount Hagen, New Guinea (1972) (82)
Introduction: new accountabilities : Anthropological studies in audit, ethics and the academy (2003) (80)
What is Intellectual Property After? (1999) (78)
CULTURE IN A NETBAG: THE MANUFACTURE OF A SUBDISCIPLINE IN ANTHROPOLOGY* (1981) (65)
Vanuatu : politics, economics, and ritual in Island Melanesia (1983) (63)
Reading relations backwards (2014) (63)
Kinship at the Core: An Anthropology of Elmdon, a Village in North-West Essex in the Nineteen-Sixties. (1982) (60)
The Whole Person and Its Artifacts (2004) (59)
Including Our Own (2021) (56)
The Ethnography of Cannibalism. (1984) (55)
The Decomposition of an Event (1992) (53)
Ethnography Without Tears [with Comments and Reply] (1989) (50)
Partners and Consumers: Making Relations Visible (1991) (49)
The Patent and the Malanggan (2001) (48)
Eating (and Feeding) (2012) (47)
Stone Axes and Flake Tools: Evaluations from Two New Guinea Highlands Societies (1970) (45)
No money on our skins: Hagen migrants in Port Moresby (1975) (45)
Shifting Contexts: Transformations in Anthropological Knowledge (2012) (44)
MARRIAGE EXCHANGES: A MELANESIAN COMMENT (1984) (44)
Binary License (2011) (43)
Dislodging a world view: Challenge and counter‐challenge in the relationship between feminism and anthropology (1985) (42)
The Multiplication of Labor: Historical Methods in the Study of Gender and Agricultural Change in Modern Africa [and Comments and Reply] (1988) (42)
Dealing with inequality : analysing gender relations in Melanesia and beyond : essays by members of the 1983/1984 Anthropological Research Group at the Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University (1990) (42)
Women in between (1972) (42)
Artefacts of history: Events and the interpretation of images (2021) (39)
Externalities in comparative guise (2002) (38)
Stone Axe Factories in the Highlands of East New Guinea (1966) (37)
Robust Knowledge and Fragile Futures (2008) (37)
The nice thing about culture is that everyone has it (2012) (37)
Brexit Referendum: first reactions from anthropology (2016) (36)
Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception. (1994) (36)
On Space and Depth (2002) (34)
Experiments in interdisciplinarity (2005) (33)
Kinship at the core (1981) (31)
Transactions and creations : property debates and the stimulus of Melanesia (2006) (31)
Communicating Climate Knowledge (2012) (31)
Anthropology and Interdisciplinarity (2005) (31)
Kinship at the Core: An Anthropology of Elmdon, a Village in North-west Essex in the Nineteen-Sixties (2009) (30)
Relations: An Anthropological Account (2020) (30)
Enabling Identity?: Biology, Choice and the New Reproductive Technologies (2011) (29)
Gifts money cannot buy (2012) (29)
4. Self-interest and the social good: some implications of Hagen gender imagery (1992) (28)
Kinship as a Relation (2014) (27)
Dealing with Inequality (1987) (26)
Pinikindu: Maternal Nurture, Paternal Substance. (1977) (25)
A clash of ontologies? Time, law, and science in Papua New Guinea (2019) (24)
Law, Anthropology, and the Constitution of the Social: Losing (out on) intellectual resources (2004) (24)
Popokl: The Question of Morality (2009) (24)
Interdisciplinarity: some models from the human sciences (2007) (23)
Official and unofficial courts: legal assumptions and expectations in a highlands community (1972) (22)
Still giving nature a helping hand? Surrogacy: a debate about technology and society. (2002) (22)
Persons and partible persons (2018) (21)
The Work of Culture: An Anthropological Perspective (1997) (20)
Future kinship and the study of culture (1995) (20)
Don't eat unwashed lettuce (2006) (20)
Gender: Division or Comparison? (1998) (18)
Writing societies, writing persons (1992) (17)
Forum on Making Kin Not Population: Reconceiving Generations (2019) (17)
Laudable aims and problematic consequences, or: The ‘flow’ of knowledge is not neutral (2004) (17)
Re-Describing Society (2003) (16)
Learning to see in Melanesia (2013) (16)
Divergences and crossovers: Response to Robert Wilson’s ‘Thinking about relations’ (2016) (14)
Between a melanesianist and a deconstructive feminist (1989) (14)
Entangled Objects: Exchange, Material Culture, and Colonialism in the Pacific. NICHOLAS THOMAS (1994) (13)
The Institutions of Meaning: A Defense of Anthropological Holism by Vincent Descombes (review) (2016) (13)
Intellectual Property and Rights: An Anthropological Perspective (2006) (13)
ABSENTEE BUSINESSMEN : THE REACTION AT HOME TO HAGENERS MIGRATING TO PORT MORESBY1 (1972) (13)
Talk Never Dies: The Language of Huli Disputes. (1985) (12)
One–Legged Gender (1993) (11)
What is a parent? (2011) (11)
Anthropological reasoning (2014) (11)
2. Domesticity and the Denigration of Women (1984) (11)
Commentary: Concrete Topographies (1988) (10)
The Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory (GDAT), The University of Manchester: The 2011 annual debate – Non-dualism is philosophy not ethnography (2013) (10)
Social Property: An Interdisciplinary Experiment* (2004) (10)
Before and After Gender: Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life (2016) (10)
III. Environments within: An ethnographic commentary on scale (2013) (10)
On the anthropology of the contemporary (2016) (10)
Prefigured Features: A view from the New Guinea Highlands (1997) (9)
Parenthood in Modern Society: Legal and Social Issues for the Twenty-First Century.@@@Children of Choice: Freedom and the New Reproduction Technologies. (1997) (9)
Gathered fields: A tale about rhizomes (2017) (9)
II. Social relations and the idea of externality (2013) (8)
Kinship, Law and the Unexpected: Notes (2005) (8)
Kinship, Law and the Unexpected: Divided Origins and the Arithmetic of Ownership (2005) (8)
Ars synthetica: A rehearsal (2010) (8)
Infrastructures in and of ethnography (2018) (8)
Response: A comment on "the ontological turn" in Japanese anthropology (2012) (8)
The punishment of margaret mead (1983) (8)
Localism displaced: A ‘vanishing village’ in rural England.* (1984) (7)
Art and anthropology after relations (2016) (7)
Exploitable knowledge belongs to the creators of it: a debate (2007) (7)
Relations (2018) (7)
Why Is the Pueraria a Sweet Potato (1969) (7)
Experiments in interdisciplinarity1 (2007) (7)
Multiple perspectives on intellectual property (2013) (6)
OPENING UP RELATIONS (2018) (6)
Within the Limits of a Certain Language:: Interview with Marilyn Strathern (2017) (6)
Surrogates and substitutes: new practices for old? (1998) (6)
Innovation or replication? Crossing and criss-crossing in social science (2014) (6)
‘The Indian Gift’: A critical debate (2017) (6)
Knowledge on its travels: dispersal and divergence in the makeup of communities (2006) (6)
An end and a beginning for the gift (2010) (6)
PLANET M THE INTENSE ABSTRACTION OF (2009) (6)
Criticizing best practice (1999) (6)
Special Section: Anthropological Knots (2014) (6)
Afterword.: The Disappearing of an Office (2017) (6)
Naturalism and the Invention of Identity (2017) (6)
Donating bodily material: the Nuffield Council report (2011) (6)
Portraits, characters and persons (2018) (5)
Not a Field Diary 'Anthropology at Home'- With the Association of Social Anthropologists (1985) (5)
Resistance, Refusal and Global Moralities* (2005) (5)
Decentering (2017) (5)
Comparing Concerns—Some issues in organ and other donations (2009) (4)
Sharing, Stealing and Borrowing Simultaneously (2020) (4)
10. Same-Sex and Cross-Sex Relations: Some Internal Comparisons (2019) (4)
Blowing hot and cold (2001) (4)
Comment on ‘capitalising difference’ (1989) (4)
The Gender of the gift, Berkeley/LosAngeles/London, University of California Press, 1990 (2012) (4)
Maurice Godelier's Metamorphoses of Kinship (2014) (4)
Whalsay: Symbol, segment and boundary in a Shetland community: Anthony P. Cohen, ix + 236 pp., 1987, Manchester University Press, Manchester, £29.95 (1988) (4)
Relatives Are Always a Surprise: Biotechnology in an Age of Individualism (2005) (3)
Universities - and Society! (2005) (3)
5 Unexpected Consequences and an Unanticipated Outcome (2013) (3)
Before and After Gender (2016) (2)
Epilogue: Expectations, Auto-narrative and Beyond (2020) (2)
2. Making Incomplete (1993) (2)
Localities, class and gender: Lancaster Regionalism Group (L. Murgatroyd, M. Savage, D. Shapiro, J. Urry, S. Walby, A. Warde, with J. Mark-Lawson), 238 pp., 1985, Pion, London, £12.00 (Series: Research in Planning and Design, A.J. Scott (ed.). No. 13 (1987) (2)
People Too Much Like Us (1996) (2)
The Impact Agenda and Its Impact on Early Career Researchers: A Discussion with Marilyn Strathern (2016) (2)
A conversation (2019) (1)
Kinship, Law and the Unexpected: Losing (out on) Intellectual Resources (2005) (1)
Kinship, Law and the Unexpected: The Patent and the Malanggan (2005) (1)
Outside desk‐work: a reflection from Marilyn Strathern (2015) (1)
After Before and after gender (2016) (1)
SELF‐REGULATION: AN INTERPRETATION OF PETER LAWRENCE'S WRITINGS ON SOCIAL CONTROL IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA (1988) (1)
Kinship, Law and the Unexpected: Introduction: The Arithmetic of Ownership (2005) (1)
Pigs and mobile phones: a conversation with Marilyn Strathern (2010) (1)
Globalisation and the new technologies of knowing: anthropological calculus or chaos? (2012) (1)
If I were the ethnographer (2010) (1)
BM Department of Ethnography (2004) (1)
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Social Science and the Self: Personal Essays on an Art Form. Susan Krieger. (1993) (1)
Inroads into altruism 1 (2016) (1)
Afterword : Becoming Enlightened about Relations (2020) (1)
We Are All Cannibals, and Other Essays by Claude Lévi-Strauss (review) (2018) (1)
A Place in the Feminist Debate (1988) (1)
Comment on Fochler and de Rijcke’s "Implicated in the indicator game? An experimental debate" (2017) (1)
The New Modernities (2020) (1)
Lecturer's Introduction & Acknowledgments (2013) (1)
Melanesian Odysseys: Negotiating the Self, Narrative and Modernity (2009) (1)
Dominant Kin Relationships and Dominant Ideas (1966) (1)
On the Referee System as a Barrier to Global Anthropology (2010) (1)
Underestimation/complacency: two comments on the language of warfare (2020) (1)
Rethinking Audit and Inspection: A Response (2005) (1)
More Than: An Afterword (2021) (1)
Insatiable Curiosity: Innovation in a Fragile Future (2009) (1)
Food, Sex, and Pollution: a New Guinea Religion. ANNA S. MEIGS (1985) (1)
Response: Marilyn Strathern (1992) (1)
Work: Exploitation at Issue (1988) (1)
Terms of engagement (2021) (1)
ENTANGLED OBJECTS : DETACHED METAPHORS (2016) (1)
Reading and Remembering the Anthropologist James F. Weiner (2021) (1)
Kinship, Law and the Unexpected: Embedded Science (2005) (0)
Protecting channels of communication: some challenges from the Pacific (2004) (0)
Interview of Marilyn Strathern (2010) (0)
Groups: Sexual Antagonism in the New Guinea Highlands (1988) (0)
Forms which Propagate (1988) (0)
1. Feathers and shells: Learning to see (2013) (0)
Gender and Identity in the New Guinea Highlands (2018) (0)
Reviews : Renato Rosaldo, Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis, Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, 1989, $21.95, xii + 253 pp (1990) (0)
The Gift Economy. DAVID CHEAL (1991) (0)
The Tribal Imagination: Civilization and the Savage Mind (review) (2012) (0)
Counting generation(s) (2021) (0)
Enterprising Kinship (2020) (0)
Land, Kinship and Life Cycle. (1986) (0)
What Politics? (2011) (0)
2. Axes and canoes: Traveling Objects (2013) (0)
Feminist Research and Paradigm Shift in Anthropology (Dystopian Version) (0)
Power: Claims and Counterclaims (1988) (0)
Special Focus: Fields, Furrows, and Landmarks in the History of Anthropology (2017) (0)
New and Old Worlds: A Perspective from Social Anthropology (2020) (0)
4. Wig / shell / tree: Hiding forms (with postscript) (2013) (0)
Human rights and moral knowledge: arguments of accountability in Zimbabwe (2012) (0)
Relations which Separate (1988) (0)
Response to Rita Brara (2021) (0)
What’s in an argument? Reflections on knowledge exchanges (2021) (0)
Inroads into Altruism (2020) (0)
Kinship in Flux (2006) (0)
Negotiating Interests in Cultural Property (2004) (0)
Friendship and Kinship: Comparatism and Its Theoretical Possibilities in Anthropology (2018) (0)
Review of Women of the Place: Kastom, Colonialism and Gender in Vanuatu, by Margaret Jolly (1996) (0)
The Social Costs of Genetic Welfare (Book). (1993) (0)
Learning to see in Melanesia (Screen Resolution Version) (2013) (0)
Annuals and Decennials (1992) (0)
Gender as It Might Be: A Review Article (1978) (0)
A celebration of Roy Wagner and ‘The reciprocity of perspectives’ (2018) (0)
The mediation of emotions (2021) (0)
Negative Strategies: An Afterword (2022) (0)
Forum (1998) (0)
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (2018) (0)
Afterword: A Last Word on Futures (2012) (0)
Kinship, Law and the Unexpected: Preface (2005) (0)
Kinship, Law and the Unexpected: References (2005) (0)
Eight London Households. SANDRA WALLMAN (1986) (0)
Review: Families we choose: lesbians, gays, kinship (2012) (0)
Book Reviews : FAMILY AND GENDER IN THE PACIFIC: DOMESTIC CONTRADICTIONS AND THE COLONIAL IMPACT. Edited by Margaret Jolly and Martha Macintyre. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989. 296 pp (1992) (0)
'A Community of Critics', Huxley Lecture 2004 (2004) (0)
Nuba Personal Art@@@Self-Decoration in Mount Hagen@@@Bangwa Funerary Sculpture@@@House Decoration in Nubia (1975) (0)
Book reviews (2010) (0)
The Institutions of Meaning: A Defense of Anthropological Holism by Vincent Descombes (review) (2019) (0)
J. Nash, Matriliny and Modernization : The Nagovisi of South Bougainville (1979) (0)
A Conversation with Marilyn Strathern About Intimacy & Entanglement (2019) (0)
Making Incomplete 1 (2021) (0)
Life-giving and death-dealing powers (2022) (0)
Kinship, Law and the Unexpected: Emergent Properties (2005) (0)
Kinship and the New Genetic Technologies: An Assessment of Existing Anthropological Research (2014) (0)
Elizabeth Roberts, God's Laboratory: Assisted Reproduction in the Andes. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012, pp. xxv, 273, figures and map. (2013) (0)
Golub, Alex, DanielRosenblatt & John D.Kelly (eds). A practice of anthropology: the thought and influence of Marshall Sahlins. vi, 305 pp., maps, tables, figs, bibliogrs. Montreal, Kingston: McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, 2016. £28.99 (paper): Book and film reviews (2017) (0)
Domains: Male and Female Models (1988) (0)
P. Brown, Highland Peoples of New Guinea (1979) (0)
Review of Two Books (2023) (0)
Dispossession and the Environment: Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea by Paige West (review) (2020) (0)
Learning (2010) (0)
Kinship, Law and the Unexpected: Introduction: Divided Origins (2005) (0)
Response (2012) (0)
A response in the first person (2018) (0)
Toren, Christina. In press for 2011. 'Anthropology and Psychology'. In Handbook of the Association of Social Anthropologists. Eds: Richard (2011) (0)
Writing in Kind (2010) (0)
S ANNUAL REVIEW (2016) (0)
Knowledge Exchange and the Creativity of Relationships / Contextualizing and Recontextualizing Knowledge: Dialogue (2015) (0)
Maria Lepowsky, Fruit of the Motherland: Gender in an Egalitarian Society and Raymond C. Kelly, Constructing Inequality: The Fabrication of a Hierarchy of Virtue among the Etoro , The Father's Tears (1997) (0)
Afterword (2021) (0)
Afterword (2009) (0)
Cannibal Metaphysics by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (review) (2015) (0)
Marilyn Strathern Reads Haraway's "Primate Visions" (2010) (0)
The rite of transition of Marilyn Strathern, Cambridge October 2008 (2008) (0)
Afterword: Taking Relationality to Extremes (2016) (0)
New knowledge for old?* Reflections following Fox's Reproduction and succession (2007) (0)
Timescales of Intervention (2019) (0)
3. Netbags and masks: Containers (2013) (0)
Sahlins, Marshall. What kinship is – and is not. x, 110 pp., bibliogr. London, Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2013. £14.00 (cloth) (2014) (0)
Climate activism: afterword (2021) (0)
V. Huffer (with the collaboration of E. Roughsey and other women of Morington Island), The Sweetness of the FIG. Aboriginal Women in Transition (1982) (0)

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