- Gifts, Social structure, anthropology, exchange
Classic work of anthropology, on the social function of gift exchange. First published in French in 1950. First translated into English 1954. Has inspired many subsequent studies of gift-giving.
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Cool, earnest, grave and classical in form.
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Marcel Mauss
- First published
- 1968
- Pages
- 164
- Publisher
- Routledge, Independently Published, Presses Universitaires de France
- Editions
- 33
- Language
- French, Spanish, German, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9780393320435
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“During this research into the extension of contractual gifts, it seemed for a long time as if potlatch proper did not exist in Polynesia.”
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