The Gift: Expanded Edition
by Marcel Mauss
Marcel Mauss examines the social obligations and cultural meanings embedded in gift exchange across diverse societies, revealing how reciprocity shapes human relationships and economic systems.
About This Book
The Gift: Expanded Edition presents Marcel Mauss's influential examination of gift-giving practices across diverse societies.
The work analyzes how gifts function as social obligations that create and maintain relationships between individuals and groups.
Mauss draws on ethnographic evidence from multiple cultures to demonstrate the complex interplay of reciprocity, honor, and economic exchange.
This expanded edition preserves the original text while offering readers access to Mauss's foundational arguments about the nature of exchange in human societies.
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