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Review: The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic SocietiesUser Review - John David - GoodreadsMarcel Mauss' “The Gift” (1925) is one of the most influential pieces of anthropology written in the twentieth century. It explores the economies of pre-capitalist cultures and peoples from several ... Read full review Review: The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic SocietiesUser Review - Eddy Allen - GoodreadsA brilliant French sociologist and anthropologist, Marcel Mauss (1872?) used case studies of Melanesia, Polynesia, and northwestern North America to demonstrate that gift exchange is a total system at the center of society. Read full review Related books
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Common terms and phrasesabalone accept American Northwest ancient Annee Sociologique Argonauts blankets Boas boats bracelets Brahmin ceremonies chief civilization clans concerning contracting parties copper objects cows dance described Dobu Durkheim's economic Elsdon Best Eskimos Ethn everything example exchange Expedition expression fact festival Germanic gift give given giver Haida Haida Texts hand Hindu honour Huvelin ibid idea Indians individual Indo-European institutions invite Jesup juridical kind kula Kwakiutl logwa magic Malinowski mancipatio Maori marriage Masset Mauss means Melanesian morality Moreover myth necklaces nexum notion obligation to reciprocate obligatory one's person phratries pledge Polynesia possess potlatch present principle received recipient relating rich ritual Roman law Samoa social societies spirits Swanton talismans taonga term theme theory things Tlingit TM total services totem translation tribes Trobriand Islands Tsim Tsimshian Twelve Tables vaygu'a wealth word References to this bookFrom Google ScholarCan We Trust Social Capital?Joel Sobel - 2002 - Journal of Economic Literature The power of gifts: organizing social relationships in open source ...Magnus Bergquist, Jan Ljungberg - 2001 - Information Systems Journal The Gift of the Gab?: A Design Oriented Sociology of Young People ...Alex S Taylor, Richard Harper - 2003 - Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) The Cultural Anthropology of Time: A Critical EssayNancy D Munn - 1992 - Annual Review of Anthropology References from web pagesJSTOR: The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic ... The Gift The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies Mauss and Collective vs. Individual, and the “System of Total ... Scott Cutler Shershow: "Response to Barbara Sebek's 'Good Turns ... Testimony and Statement submitted and read at the Inquiry into the ... Oslo Summer School in Comparative Social Science Studies MIT opencourseware | Anthropology | 21A.100 Introduction to ... e-Prints Soton - Gift of life or sacrifice?: Key discourses to ... Georges Bataille and the Notion of Gift Bibliographic information
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