Marilyn Strathern

Dame Ann Marilyn Strathern, DBE, FBA (born 6 March 1941) is a British anthropologist who was Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge from 1998 until her retirement in 2009. She was the William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University from 1994 to 2008.

Biography

Born Ann Marilyn Evans to Eric Charles Evans and Joyce Florence Evans, Strathern was educated at Bromley High School and at Girton College, Cambridge.^[1] In 1963 she married another anthropologist, Andrew Strathern, and they had three children though the marriage was later dissolved.

Strathern was a visiting professor at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia and the University of California, Berkeley. From 1985 to 1993 she was Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, before returning to take a chair at the University of Cambridge. In addition she was Mistress of Girton College from 1998 to 2009.^[2]

Strathern has conducted fieldwork in Papua New Guinea and the United Kingdom: her anthropological work has used Melanesian conceptions, as well as feminist insights, to question the universality of some Western categories often taken to be fundamental: society, the individual, relation, property, substance, effect, nature, culture and so on. She has also written about new reproductive technologies and intellectual property law and her most recent work focuses on the complexities of transparency, accountability, and audit, especially within the academy.

Currently a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, she also chairs the Council’s Working Party on human bodies in medicine and research (report to be published autumn 2011).^[3]

Work

• Self-Decoration in Mount Hagen (1971)
• Women in Between (1972)
• No Money on Our Skins: Hagen Migrants in Port Moresby (1975) ISBN 0-85818-027-8
• Kinship at the Core: an Anthropology of Elmdon, Essex (1981) ISBN 0-521-23360-7
• The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia (1988) ISBN 0-520-07202-2
• Partial connections. Savage, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield (1991). Re-issued by AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, CA. (2004)
• After Nature: English Kinship in the Late Twentieth Century (1992) ISBN 978-0-521-42680-0
• Property, substance and effect. Anthropological essays on persons and things. London: Athlone Press (1999) Collected essays, 1992-98 ISBN 0-485-12149-2
• Commons and borderlands: working papers on interdisciplinarity, accountability and the flow of knowledge (2004) ISBN 0-9545572-2-0
• (ed. with Eric Hirsch) Transactions and creations: property debates and the stimulus of Melanesia, Oxford: Berghahn.
• (ed) Audit Cultures. Anthropological studies in accountability, ethics and the academy. (2000) London: Routledge.
• Kinship, law and the unexpected: Relatives are often a surprise. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2005) ISBN 0-521-61509-7

References

1. ^ Video interview of Marilyn Strathern, Interviews with Anthropologists, World Oral Literature Project
2. ^ Past Mistresses page, Girton College, Cambridge
3. ^ Nuffield Council on Bioethics' official website-Human bodies

External links

• Shayna Loree Collins, 'Marilyn Strathern 1941-'
• List of Strathern's recent publications
• 'A Community of Critics' R.A.I. Huxley Memorial Lecture, given at University College, London, 8th December 2004 (film)
• Marilyn Strathern interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 6th May 2009 (film)

Academic offices
Preceded by Juliet J. D'Auvergne Campbell	Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge 1998–2009	Succeeded by Susan J. Smith
Preceded by Ernest Gellner	William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology Cambridge University 1984 - 1992	Succeeded by Henrietta Moore

Persondata
Name	Strathern, Marilyn
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Date of birth	6 March 1941
Place of birth
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