ISBN: 9780393320435
author:
Marcel Mauss
translator:
W. D. Halls
other title:
The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
publishing house: W. W. Norton & Company
publication date: 2000
-8
language:
English
binding: Paperback
price: USD 15.95
number of pages: 184
The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
Essai sur le don
Marcel Mauss translator: W. D. Halls
overview
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.
