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020 $a9781107002180 (hardback)
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050 00 $aGT3041.E85$bL54 2011
082 00 $a394.094$222
100 1 $aLiebersohn, Harry.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87865062
245 14 $aThe return of the gift :$bEuropean history of a global idea /$cHarry Liebersohn.
260 $aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2011.
300 $axi, 210 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 171-204) and index.
505 0 $aThe crisis of the gift: Warren Hastings and his critics -- Liberalism, self-interest, and the gift -- The selfless 'savage': theories of primitive communism -- Anthropologists and the power of the gift: Boas, Thurnwald, Malinowski -- Marcel Mauss and the globalized gift.
520 $a"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"--Provided by publisher.
520 $a"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"--Provided by publisher.
650 0 $aGifts$zEurope$xHistory.
650 0 $aCeremonial exchange.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85022128
650 0 $aAnthropology$xPhilosophy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101154
852 00 $bglx$hGT3041.E85$iL54 2011