The Return of the Gift European History of a Global Idea 1st Edition by Harry Liebersohn ISBN 1107002184 978-1107002180

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ISBN 10:1107002184

ISBN 13:978-1107002180

Author:Harry Liebersohn 

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.

Table of contents: 

1. The Crisis of the Gift
2. Liberalism Self-Interest and the Gift
3. The Selfless Savage
4. Anthropologists and the Power of the Gift
5. Marcel Mauss and the Globalized Gift

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