Return of the Gift : European History of a Global Idea PDF
by Harry Liebersohn
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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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- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:06/12/2010
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- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
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