| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 210 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-204) and index. |
| Summary |
"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"--Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
The crisis of the gift: Warren Hastings and his critics -- Liberalism, self-interest, and the gift -- The selfless 'savage': theories of primitive communism -- Anthropologists and the power of the gift: Boas, Thurnwald, Malinowski -- Marcel Mauss and the globalized gift. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Gifts -- Europe -- History.
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Gifts. |
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Europe. |
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History. |
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Ceremonial exchange.
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Ceremonial exchange. |
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Anthropology -- Philosophy.
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Anthropology -- Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Liebersohn, Harry. Return of the gift. New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2011 9781107002180 (DLC) 2010031319 (OCoLC)656848047 |
| ISBN |
9780511933691 (electronic book) |
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051193369X (electronic book) |
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9781107002180 |
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1107002184 |
| Standard No. |
9786612943812 |
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