The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies by Marcel Mauss

The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies

Marcel Mauss

148 pages first pub 1925 (editions)

nonfiction essays sociology informative reflective slow-paced

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The Gift is a short book by the French sociologist Marcel Mauss that is the foundation of social theories of reciprocity and gift exchange.Mauss's original piece was entitled Essai sur le don. Forme et raison de l' change dans les soci t s archa q...

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