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The Gift - Expanded Edition (Paperback, Expanded Ed)
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The Gift - Expanded Edition (Paperback, Expanded Ed)
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Loot Price R427
Discovery Miles 4 270
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Scan down a list of essential works in any introduction to
anthropology course and you are likely to see to see Marcel Mauss's
masterpiece, Essay on the Gift. With this new translation, this
crucial essay is returned to its original context, published
alongside the profound works that framed its first publication in
the 1923-24 issue of L'Annee Sociologique. With a critical foreword
by Maurice Godelier, this is certain to become the standard English
version of this important anthropological work. Included alongside
the "Essay on the Gift" are Mauss's memorial accounts of the work
of colleagues lost during World War I, as well as his scholarly
reviews of influential contemporaries such as Franz Boas, James
George Frazer, Bronislaw Malinowski, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, and
others. Read in the context of these additional pieces, the "Essay
on the Gift" is revealed as a complementary whole, a gesture of
both personal and political generosity: his honor for his fallen
colleagues; his aspiration for modern society's recuperation of the
gift as a mode of repair; and his own careful, yet critical,
reading of his intellectual milieu. The result sets the scene for a
whole new generation of readers to study this essay alongside
pieces that exhibit the erudition, political commitment, and
generous collegial exchange that first nourished it into life.
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