The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies by Marcel Mauss

The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies

Marcel Mauss with Ian Cunnison (Translator)

146 pages first pub 1925 (editions)

nonfiction essays sociology informative reflective slow-paced

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2011 Reprint of 1954 American Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This is perhaps the first systematic study of the custom, widespread in primitive societies from ancient Rome to prese...

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