UID:
almafu_9959240775502883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 210 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-85350-5
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1-107-22043-2
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1-282-94381-2
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9786612943812
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0-511-93232-4
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0-511-93098-4
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0-511-93369-X
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0-511-92846-7
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0-511-78224-1
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0-511-92595-6
Content:
This book is a history of European interpretations of the gift from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Reciprocal gift exchange, pervasive in traditional European society, disappeared from the discourse of nineteenth-century social theory only to return as a major theme in twentieth-century anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy and literary studies. Modern anthropologists encountered gift exchange in Oceania and the Pacific Northwest and returned the idea to European social thought; Marcel Mauss synthesized their insights with his own readings from remote times and places in his famous 1925 essay on the gift, the starting-point for subsequent discussion. The Return of the Gift demonstrates how European intellectual history can gain fresh significance from global contexts.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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The crisis of the gift : Warren Hastings and his critics -- Liberalism, self-interest, and the gift -- The selfless "savage" : theories of primitive communism -- Anthropologists and the power of the gift : Boas, Thurnwald, Malinowski -- Marcel Mauss and the globalized gift.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-41141-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-00218-4
Language:
English
