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Guerres et festins: paix, échanges et compétition dans les Highlands de Nouvelle-Guinée
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ISBN: 273510379X 9782735103799 Year: 1990 Publisher: Paris Maison des Sciences de l'Homme


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The power of gifts : gift-exchange in Early Modern England.
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ISBN: 9780199542956 0199542953 1322331871 0191020133 0191780642 9780191020131 9780191780646 9780191780646 Year: 2014 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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This study considers the nature of gift-giving in early-modern England - looking at what gifts were, how they were offered and received, and what did they mean politically under the different monarchs of the 16th and 17th centuries.


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Des dons et des dieux : anthropologie religieuse et sociologie comparative.
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ISBN: 2877723410 9782877723411 Year: 2006 Publisher: Paris Errance

The fame of Gawa : a symbolic study of value transformation in a Massim (Papua New Guinea) society
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ISBN: 0822312700 Year: 1992 Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press,

Social reproduction and history in Melanesia : mortuary ritual, gift exchange, and custom in the Tanga Islands
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ISBN: 0521480302 0521483328 Year: 1995 Volume: 96 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

Le prix de la vérité : le don, l'argent, la philosophie
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ISBN: 2020510502 9782020510509 Year: 2002 Publisher: Paris Seuil

Toward an anthropological theory of value : the false coin of our own dreams
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ISBN: 9780312240455 0312240457 0312240449 9780312240448 9780312299064 Year: 2001 Publisher: New York Palgrave Macmillan

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Now a widely cited classic, this innovative book is the first comprehensive synthesis of economic, political, and cultural theories of value. David Graeber reexamines a century of anthropological thought about value and exchange, in large measure to find a way out of ongoing quandaries in current social theory, which have become critical at the present moment of ideological collapse in the face of Neoliberalism. Rooted in an engaged, dynamic realism, Graeber argues that projects of cultural comparison are in a sense necessarily revolutionary projects: He attempts to synthesize the best insights of Karl Marx and Marcel Mauss, arguing that these figures represent two extreme, but ultimately complementary, possibilities in the shape such a project might take. Graeber breathes new life into the classic anthropological texts on exchange, value, and economy. He rethinks the cases of Iroquois wampum, Pacific kula exchanges, and the Kwakiutl potlatch within the flow of world historical processes, and recasts value as a model of human meaning-making, which far exceeds rationalist/reductive economist paradigms.

Marcel Mauss : a centenary tribute
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ISBN: 1571817034 1571817050 1789205697 9781571817051 Year: 1998 Volume: 1 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Berghahn

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Marcel Mauss, successor of Emile Durkheim and one-time teacher of Claude Levi-Strauss, continues to inspire social scientists across various disciplines. Only selected texts of Mauss's work have been translated into English, but of these, some, as for instance his "Essay on the Gift," have proved of key significance for the development of anthropology internationally. Recently and starting in France, the interest in Mauss's work has increased noticeably as witnessed by several reassessments of its relevance to current social theory. This collection of original essays is the first to introduce the English-language reader to the current re-evaluation of his ideas in continental Europe. Themes include the post-structuralist appraisal of "exchange", the anthropology of the body, practical techniques, gesture systems, the notions of substance, materiality, and the social person. There are fresh insights into comparative politics and history, modern forms of charity, and new readings of some political and historical aspects of Mauss's work that bear on the analysis of regions such as Africa and the Middle East, relatively neglected by the Durkheimian school and by structuralism. This volume is a timely tribute to mark the centenary of Mauss' early work and confirms the continuing relevance of his ideas.

L'énigme du don
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ISBN: 9782080800497 9782080800473 2080800477 2080800493 Year: 2002 Publisher: Paris : Flammarion,

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