The return of the gift : European history of a global idea
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The return of the gift : European history of a global idea
Cambridge University Press, 2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-204) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This book is a history of European interpretations of the gift from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Reciprocal gift exchange, pervasive in traditional European society, disappeared from the discourse of nineteenth-century social theory only to return as a major theme in twentieth-century anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy and literary studies. Modern anthropologists encountered gift exchange in Oceania and the Pacific Northwest and returned the idea to European social thought; Marcel Mauss synthesized their insights with his own readings from remote times and places in his famous 1925 essay on the gift, the starting-point for subsequent discussion. The Return of the Gift demonstrates how European intellectual history can gain fresh significance from global contexts.
目次
- Introduction
- 1. The crisis of the gift: Warren Hastings and his critics
- 2. Liberalism, self-interest, and the gift
- 3. The selfless 'savage': theories of primitive communism
- 4. Anthropologists and the power of the gift: Boas, Thurnwald, Malinowski
- 5. Marcel Mauss and the globalized gift
- Conclusion.
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