The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
by:
Marcel Mauss (author)
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...
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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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393320435 (039332043X)
ASIN: 039332043X
Publish date: 2000-08
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 184
Edition language: English
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