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

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

Marcel Mauss

184 pages first pub 1925 (view editions)

nonfiction essays sociology informative reflective slow-paced
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A brilliant example of the comparative method,The Gift presents the first systematic study of the custom—widespread in primitive societies from ancient Rome to present-day Melanesia—of exchanging gifts. The gift is a perfect example of what Mauss ...

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