Books > History/Anthropology > French Historians and philosophers > The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
Reference : 9780393320435
Author : Mauss, Marcel (Author), Halls, W D (Translator)
Number of page : 164
Edition : W. W. Norton & Company
Release date : 2000-04-01
The Gift is Marcel Mauss's groundbreaking study of the relation between forms of exchange and social structure. A brilliant French sociologist and anthropologist, Mauss (1872-1950) used case studies of Melanesia, Polynesia, and northwestern North America to demonstrate that gift exchange is a total system at the center of society.
