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.
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