description: 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. A brilliant French sociologist and anthropologist, Marcel Mauss (1872?) used case studies of Melanesia, Polynesia, and northwestern North America to demonstrate that gift exchange is a total system at the center of society.
language: English
title: The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies
titlecomplete: The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies
genres: History, Sociology, Philosophy, Academic, Nonfiction, Anthropology, Economics, School, Classics, Theory
ratings_count: 3396
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company