Essay on the Gift: The Form and Sense of Exchange in Archaic Societies by Marcel Mauss, Giovanni da Col, Jane I. Guyer

Essay on the Gift: The Form and Sense of Exchange in Archaic Societies

Marcel Mauss, Giovanni da Col, Jane I. Guyer

237 pages first pub 1925 (editions)

nonfiction essays sociology informative reflective slow-paced
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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, publi...

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