Gre¿goire Mallard

Gift Exchange

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines gift exchanges as a foundational notion both in anthropology and in debates about international economic governance. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9781108453486
• ISBN-10: 1108453481
• Artikelnr.: 54309328

Autorenporträt

Grégoire Mallard is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. He is the author of Fallout: Nuclear Diplomacy in an Age of Global Fracture (2014) and co-editor of Contractual Knowledge: One Hundred Years of Legal Experimentation in Global Markets (Cambridge, 2016). His publications focus on prediction, knowledge and ignorance in global governance.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The history of a political idea: gifts, trusts, reparations and other
fetishes of international solidarity; 2. The cast: Marcel Mauss and his
legacy in the French fields of power; 3. The gift and European solidarity:
Marcel Mauss and the politics of reparation in interwar Europe; 4. The gift
as colonial ideology: Marcel Mauss and French colonial policy before and
after the Great War; 5. Mauss's disciples in Algeria: the anthropology of
the gift and the shock of decolonization; 6. Decolonizing the gift:
nationalization and sovereign debt cancellation in North-South relations;
7. International solidarity and gift exchange in the Eurozone.