Lyons, Deborah
Dangerous Gifts

Gender and Exchange in Ancient Greece.

The book explores the role of gender in exchange as represented in ancient Greek culture, including Homeric epic and tragedy, non-literary texts, and iconographic and historical evidence of various kinds. Using extensive insights from anthropological work on marriage, kinship, and exchange, as well as ethnographic parallels from other traditional societies, Deborah Lyons probes the gendered division of labor among both gods and mortals, the role of marriage (and its failure) in transforming women from objects to agents of exchange, the equivocal nature of women as exchange-partners, and the importance of the sister-brother bond in understanding the economic and social place of women in ancient Greece. XIII,166 Seiten mit 5 Abb., gebunden (University of Texas Press 2012) textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, minimal berieben/clean text pages, minor traces of use, slightly rubbed