Essay on the Gift
The Form and Sense of Exchange in Archaic Societies
Recommended by Will Davies, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #35 in Anthropology
Scan down a list of essential works in any introduction to anthropology course and you are likely to see to see Marcel Mauss’s masterpiece, Essay on the Gift. With this new translation, this crucial essay is returned to its original context, published alongside the profound works that framed its first publication in the 1923–24 issue of L’Année Sociologique. With a critical foreword by Jonathan Parry and Maurice Bloch, this is certain to become the standard English version of this important anthropological work.
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Will Davies A classic of economic anthropology. Its central argument is that gifts of all kinds require reciprocity and that this plays a fundamental role in how societies cohere. (Source)
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