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KINSHIP AND ALLIANCE

Eriksen, Thomas Hylland 2001: Small Places, Large Issues. An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology. London: Pluto Press. p. 93-123 (chapters 7 & 8) 30   pages

Fox, Robin 1967: Kinship and Marriage. An Anthropological Perspective. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 175-207 (chapter 7) 33   pages

Dumont, Louis 2006: Introduction to Two Theories of Social Anthropology. Descent Groups and Marriage Alliance. Oxford / New York: Berghahn Books. p. 61-87, 27  pages

Lévi-Strauss, Claude 1969: The Elementary Systems of Kinship. Boston: Beacon press. p. 42-68 (chapters IV 6 V) 26 pages

Holy, Ladislav: Anthropological Perspectives on Kinship. London: Pluto Press. p. 124-142 (chapters 6) 19 pages

SOCIAL GIFT EXCHANGE THEORY

Sahlins, Marshall 1972: Stone Age Economics. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. p. 149-183 (chapter 4) 34 pages

Hénaff, Marcel 1998: Claude Lévi-Strauss and the Making of Structural Anthropology. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. p. 21-93 (chapters 1, 2 & 3) 65  pages

Godelier, Maurice 1999: The Enigma of the Gift. Cambridge: Polity Press. All chapters, 133 pages              
                       
WOMAN AS AGENT; CRITIQUE OF WOMAN AS "GIFT"       

Rubin, Gayle 2006 [1975]: The Traffic in Women: Notes on the "Political Economy" of Sex. In Lewin, L. (ed.): Feminist Anthropology. A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell. p. 87-106, 17 pages

Weiner, Annette, B. 1992: Inalienable Possessions. The paradox of Keeping-While-Giving. Oxford: The University of California Press. all chapters, 132 pages  

Strathern, Marilyn 1988: The Gender of the Gift. Problems with Women and problems with Society in Melanesia. London: University of California Press. p. 133-224 (chapters 6, 7 & 8) 90 pages

Rose, Sonya 2010: What is Gender History? Cambridge: Polity Press. p.1-16, 102-121 (chapters 1, 6)  36 pages               
                       
SUM PAGES    642