The return of the gift European history of a global idea Harry Liebersohn
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge University Press 2011Edition: 1. publDescription: XI, 210 S. 24 cmContent type:- Text
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- Band
- 9781107411418
- 1107002184
- 9781107002180
- 394.094 22
- 394.4094
- GT3041.E85
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- LB 48000
- LB 57000
- 15.07
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single unit book | HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – 1st floor – Library Room – Open Stacks | F (Affiliated) | F:GT3041.E85 L54 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 2023-1619 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-204) and index
The 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.
"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
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