The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies

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Routledge, Sep 10, 2002 - Social Science - 192 pages
First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
1 The Exchange of Gifts and the Obligation to Reciprocate Polynesia
10
2 The Extension of this System
24
3 Survivals of these Principles in Ancient Systems of Law and Ancient Economies
60
4 Conclusion
83

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Marcel Mauss (1872 - 1950) As well as being a sociologist and anthropologist, Mauss was also a revolutionary socialist. Today his name is associated with the leading intellectual movement in France, MAUSS.

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