The Gift

The Gift The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies

Marcel Mauss2000
A brilliant French sociologist and anthropologist, Marcel Mauss (1872?) used case studies of Melanesia, Polynesia, and northwestern North America to demonstrate that gift exchange is a total system at the center of society.
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