TY  - BOOK
AU  - Liebersohn,Harry
TI  - The return of the gift: European history of a global idea
SN  - 9781107411418
AV  - GT3041.E85 
U1  - 394.094 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge [u.a.]
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Gifts
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - Ceremonial exchange
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Class of Spring 2017
KW  - Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow
KW  - Fellow
N1  - 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
N2  - "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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