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The return of the gift : European history of a global idea /
"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 twe...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
©2011.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.