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The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies Paperback - 1989
by Marcel Mauss
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During this research into the extension of contractual gifts, it seemed for a long time as if potlatch proper did not exist in Polynesia.
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- Title The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
- Author Marcel Mauss
- Binding Paperback
- Edition New edition
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge, London
- Date January 1989
- ISBN 9780415044882 / 041504488X
- Library of Congress subjects Gifts, Exchange
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 89010402
- Dewey Decimal Code 394
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Routledge, London, 1997. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. translated by W. D. Halls; foreword by Mary Douglas; Marcel Mauss was a French sociologist and anthropologist. His work profoundly influenced the field of anthropology with respect to topics such as magic, sacrifice, and gift exchange in primitive cultures. A brilliant example of the comparative method, 'The Gift' presents the first systematic study of the custom - -widespread in primitive societies from ancient Rome to present-day Melanesia - -of exchanging gifts. The gift is a perfect example of what Mauss calls a total social phenomenon, since it involves legal, economic, moral, religious, aesthetic, and other dimensions. He sees the gift exchange as related to individuals and groups as much as to the objects themselves, and his analysis calls into question the social conventions and economic systems that had been taken for granted for so many years. In a modern translation, introduced by distinguished anthropologist…
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