Essay on the Gift: The Form and Sense of Exchange in Archaic Societies [Paperback ed.] 0990505006, 9780990505006

Scan down a list of essential works in any introduction to anthropology course and you are likely to see to see Marcel M

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Essay on the Gift: The Form and Sense of Exchange in Archaic Societies [Paperback ed.]
0990505006, 9780990505006

Marcel Mauss’s 1925 essay The Gift is an enduring classic of sociological and anthropological analysis by a thinker who

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In this substantial essay on the novel (first published in 1964) Barbara Hardy distinguishes three integral aspects of t

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Archaeological data from the Late Archaic (4000-2000 years ago) in the Western Great Lakes are analyzed to understand th

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Many recent academic and semi-academic voices claim that political deliberation has become exceedingly affective and hen

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Thomas Blanton sheds light on the philosophy surrounding gift giving in Paul’s letters and on modern theories of gift ex

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In the series Solidarity and Identitya highly readable study of gift-giving in seventeenth- century Holland across the s

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The Testimony of Sense attempts to answer a neglected but important question: what became of epistemology in the late ei

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Steppes and deserts -- Cataracts of the Orinoco -- Nocturnal life of animals in the primeval forests -- Ideas for a phys

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