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Anthropology
Gifts
Social Structure
Exchange
Published 1968 Cohen & West 9 views
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039332043X, 9780393320435
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Marcel Mauss

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During this research into the extension of contractual gifts, it seemed for a long time as if potlatch proper did not exist in Polynesia...

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Classic work of anthropology, on the social function of gift exchange. First published in French in 1950. First translated into English 1954. Has inspired many subsequent studies of gift-giving.

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