Marcel Mauss

The Gift

The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
Übersetzer: Halls, W D

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blue Guides Limited of London
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 135mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 181g
• ISBN-13: 9780393320435
• ISBN-10: 039332043X
• Artikelnr.: 21624574

Autorenporträt

Marcel Mauss was a French sociologist and anthropologist. His work profoundly influenced the field of anthropology with respect to topics such as magic, sacrifice, and gift exchange in primitive cultures.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgments Overview of the principle concepts of language testing Basic statistics and SPSS Validity Reliability Assessing reading Assessing writing Assessing oral proficiency Appendix: Selected standardized tests References Index

Rezensionen

'The Gift is quite undeniably the masterwork of Marcel Mauss, his most justly famous writing, and the work whose influence has been the deepest.' - Claude Lévi-Strauss

'The Gift is quite undeniably the masterwork of Marcel Mauss, his most justly famous writing, and the work whose influence has been the deepest.' - Claude Lévi-Strauss