Burton Benedict and Marion Benedict

Men, Women, and Money in Seychelles: Two Views

Berkeley, University of California Press, 1982.

GN661.S49.B46 Anthropology Library

"This book, an ethnography of the Seychelles, is presented in two parts: the first by Marion Benedict in the form of a first-person narrative of her experiences with one Seychelloise woman, and the second, a sociological description by Burton Benedict. A man fulfills his obligations to women through gifts of money... In return, women who have much less access to wage employment fulfill their obligations to men who have given money through their sexuality and domestic labour."

From: Alexis M. Gardella 1985 review of "Men, Women, and Money in Seychelles: Two Views."
Man, vol. 20, no. 1, p. 167-168.