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The Gift (Hardcover)
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The Gift (Hardcover)
Series: The Macat Library
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Marcel Mauss's 1925 essay The Gift is an enduring classic of
sociological and anthropological analysis by a thinker who is one
of the founding fathers of modern anthropology. The Gift exploits
Mauss's high-level analytical and interpretative skills to produce
a brilliant investigation of the forms, meanings, and structures of
gift-giving across a range of societies. Mauss, along with many
others, had noted that in a wide range of societies - especially
those without monetary exchange or legal structures - gift-giving
and receiving was carried out according to strict customs and
unwritten laws. What he sought to do in The Gift was to analyse the
structures that governed how and when gifts were given, received,
and reciprocated in order to grasp what implicit and unspoken
reasons governed these structures. He also wanted to apply his
interpretative skills to asking what such exchanges meant, in order
to explore the implications his analysis might have for modern,
western cultures. In Mauss's investigations, it became clear that
gift-giving is, in many cultures, a crucial structural force,
binding people together in a web of reciprocal commitments
generated by the laws of gifting. Indeed, he concluded, gifts can
be seen as the 'glue' of society..
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