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1. Audit Cultures

   Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy

   By Marilyn Strathern

   Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists

   Do audit cultures deliver greater responsibility, or do they stifle creative thought?We are all increasingly subjected to auditing, and alongside that, subject to accountability for our behaviour and actions. Audit cultures pervade in the workplace, our governmental and public institutions as well...

   Published July 12th 2000 by Routledge
2. Technologies of Procreation

   Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception, 2nd Edition

   By Jeanette Edwards, Sarah Franklin, Eric Hirsch, Frances Price, Marilyn Strathern

   Technologies of Procreation bridges the gap between medical technology and cultural values. It looks at the ways in which the 'technologies of procreation' affect society from an anthropological perspective....

   Published January 13th 1999 by Routledge
3. Shifting Contexts

   Edited by Marilyn Strathern

   Series: ASA Decennial Conference Series: The Uses of Knowledge

   To suppose anthropological analysis can shift between global and local perspectives may well imply that the two co-exist as broader and narrower horizons or contexts of knowledge. The proof for this can be found in ethnographic accounts where contrasts are repeatedly drawn between the encompassing...

   Published August 23rd 1995 by Routledge