The Gift
Subtitle: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
Contributors: Mary Douglas (Foreword); W D Hall (Translator)
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Published: August 1, 1990
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780393306989
First sentence: During this research into the extension of contractual gifts, it seemed for a long time as if potlatch proper did not exist in Polynesia.