Marcel Mauss

Broschiertes Buch

The Gift

The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies

Übersetzer: Halls, W D

Beschreibung

The Gift is Marcel Mauss's groundbreaking study of the relation between forms of exchange and social structure. A brilliant French sociologist and anthropologist, Mauss (1872-1950) used case studies of Melanesia, Polynesia, and northwestern North America to demonstrate that gift exchange is a total system at the center of society.

Autor

Marcel Mauss was a French sociologist and anthropologist. His work profoundly influenced the field of anthropology with respect to topics such as magic, sacrifice, and gift exchange in primitive cultures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blue Guides Limited of London
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 135mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 181g
• ISBN-13: 9780393320435
• ISBN-10: 039332043X
• Artikelnr.: 21624574

Rezensionen

'The Gift is quite undeniably the masterwork of Marcel Mauss, his most justly famous writing, and the work whose influence has been the deepest.' - Claude Lévi-Strauss

'The Gift is quite undeniably the masterwork of Marcel Mauss, his most justly famous writing, and the work whose influence has been the deepest.' - Claude Lévi-Strauss