The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies by Marcel Mauss

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

by Marcel Mauss

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Info:	W. W. Norton & Company (2000), Paperback
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Excellent take on gift-giving in non-monetary societies, with sound research and convincing argumentation. Mauss brings up intriguing thoughts and shows patterns of gift-giving and the relationships of reciprocation stemming from it. The influence can be seen in almost all later works on the subject. (

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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.

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