Jane Guyer, The Gift that Keeps on Giving - Part 1, SOAS University of London
Channel: SOAS University of London
Date: 2016-04-30

https://www.soas.ac.uk/ethnographic-theory/
This is the first part of the event titled "The Gift that Keeps on Giving" which was held to celebrate the launch of Jane Guyer's new translation and expanded edition of The Gift (HAU Books).
More about this event: https://goo.gl/UESjBX
This event celebrates the release of Jane Guyer's new translation and expanded edition of Marcel Mauss' The Gift (with a new foreword by Bill Maurer). Following the tradition of Evans-Pritchard and Mary Douglas in reframing Mauss' classic essay for new translations and new generations, Guyer has set a new bar for how we might chart new paths via anthropology's most famous gift that keeps on giving. For this event, some of the discipline’s greatest interlocutors of Mauss have been invited to reflect on the question: "What did The Gift give to anthropology and the humanities, and what can it still give?" In this collective discussion, we seek to explore the unexplored paths where the essai may still lead us, inspired by Mauss' wisdom and vision of solidarity and to be gained through close ethnographic and historical attention. What are these paths now, for our own moment in history--now 91 years after the publication of the essai? 

Participants: Jane Guyer, Marshall Sahlins, Marilyn Strathern, Maurice Bloch, Jonathan Parry, Keith Hart, David Graeber, Jacob Copeman, Kostas Retsikas, and Giovanni da Col
The second part of this event is available at https://youtu.be/q3tefa9LGxQ