Book
The Gift
Essai sur le don Douban Goodreads
Marcel Mauss
translator:
W. D. Halls
publishing house:
W. W. Norton & Company
2000
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other title:
The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
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.