The Gift

The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies

By Marcel Mauss; W. D. Halls (Translator); Mary Douglas (Foreword by)
(W. W. Norton & Company, Paperback, 9780393320435, 164pp.)

Publication Date: August 2000

Other Editions of This Title: Paperback, Paperback

Categories: Customs & Traditions, Anthropology - General

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Since its first publication in English in 1954, The Gift, Marcel Mauss's groundbreaking study of the relation between forms of exchange and social structure, has been acclaimed as a classic among anthropology texts.
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