Harry Liebersohn

Return of the Gift (eBook, ePUB)

European History of a Global Idea

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511853500
• Artikelnr.: 52972110

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The crisis of the gift: Warren Hastings and his critics
2. Liberalism, self-interest, and the gift
3. The selfless 'savage': theories of primitive communism
4. Anthropologists and the power of the gift: Boas, Thurnwald, Malinowski
5. Marcel Mauss and the globalized gift
Conclusion.