The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
Released: Jan 01, 1990
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.
Format: Paperback, 164 pages
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Since its first publication in English in 1954, The Gift, Marcel Mauss's groundbreaking study of the relation between forms of exchange and social structure, has been acclaimed as a classic among anthropology texts.A 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.
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