The return of the gift : European history of a global idea / Harry Liebersohn.

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Liebersohn, Harry

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text

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computer

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online resource

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9780511933691
051193369X
0511853505
9780511853500
1107220432
9781107220430
1282943812
9781282943810
9786612943812
6612943815
0511932324
9780511932328
0511930984
9780511930980
0511928467
9780511928468
0511782241
9780511782244
0511925956
9780511925955

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Return of the gift.DDC classification:

394.094 22

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GT3041.E85 L54 2011eb

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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.

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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-204) and index.

"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.