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Description: Marcel Mauss's 1925 essay The Gift is an enduring classic of sociological and anthropological analysis by a thinker who is one of the founding fathers of modern anthropology. The Gift exploits Mauss's high - level analytical and interpretative skills to produce a brilliant investigation of the forms meanings and structures of gift - giving across a range of societies. Mauss along with many others had noted that in a wide range of societies especially those without monetary exchange or legal structures gift - giving and receiving was carried out according to strict customs and unwritten laws. What he sought to do in The Gift was to analyse the structures that governed how and when gifts were given received and reciprocated in order to grasp what implicit and unspoken reasons governed these structures. He also wanted to apply his interpretative skills to asking what such exchanges meant in order to explore the implications his analysis might have for modern western cultures. In Mauss's investigations it became clear that gift - giving is in many cultures a crucial structural force binding people together in a web of reciprocal commitments generated by the laws of gifting. Indeed he concluded gifts can be seen as the glue of society.
Title: An Analysis Of Marcel Mauss's The Gift The Form And Reason For Exchange In Archaic Societies
Author(s): Macat Team The
Publisher: Macat International Limited
Barcode: 9781912128587
Pages: 128 Pages
Publication Date: 7/5/2017
Series: The Macat Library
Category: Political Science & Theory
Description: Marcel Mauss's 1925 essay The Gift is an enduring classic of sociological and anthropological analysis by a thinker who is one of the founding fathers of modern anthropology. The Gift exploits Mauss's high - level analytical and interpretative skills to produce a brilliant investigation of the forms meanings and structures of gift - giving across a range of societies. Mauss along with many others had noted that in a wide range of societies especially those without monetary exchange or legal structures gift - giving and receiving was carried out according to strict customs and unwritten laws. What he sought to do in The Gift was to analyse the structures that governed how and when gifts were given received and reciprocated in order to grasp what implicit and unspoken reasons governed these structures. He also wanted to apply his interpretative skills to asking what such exchanges meant in order to explore the implications his analysis might have for modern western cultures. In Mauss's investigations it became clear that gift - giving is in many cultures a crucial structural force binding people together in a web of reciprocal commitments generated by the laws of gifting. Indeed he concluded gifts can be seen as the glue of society.
Title: An Analysis Of Marcel Mauss's The Gift The Form And Reason For Exchange In Archaic Societies
Author(s): Macat Team The
Publisher: Macat International Limited
Barcode: 9781912128587
Pages: 128 Pages
Publication Date: 7/5/2017
Series: The Macat Library
Category: Political Science & Theory
