The return of the gift [electronic resource] : European history of a global idea / Harry Liebersohn.
"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 twentiet...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. The crisis of the gift: Warren Hastings and his critics; 2. Liberalism, self-interest, and the gift; 3. The selfless 'savage': theories of primitive communism; 4. Anthropologists and the power of the gift: Boas, Thurnwald, Malinowski; 5. Marcel Mauss and the globalized gift; Conclusion.