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- catalog abstract "When we think of giving gifts, we think of exchanging objects that carry with them economic or symbolic value. But is every valuable thing a potentially exchangeable item, whose value can be transferred? In The Enigma of the Gift, the distinguished French anthropologist Maurice Godelier reassesses the significance of gifts in social life by focusing on sacred objects, which are never exchanged despite the value they possess. Beginning with an analysis of the seminal work of Marcel Mauss and Claude Levi-Strass, and drawing on his own fieldwork in Melanesia, Godelier argues that traditional theories are flawed because they consider only exchangeable gifts. By explaining gift-giving in terms of sacred objects and the authoritative conferral of power associated with them, Godelier challenges both recent and traditional theories of gift-giving, provocatively refreshing a traditional debate. Elegantly translated by Nora Scott, The Enigma of the Gift is at once a major theoretical contribution and an essential guide to the history of the theory of the gift.".
- catalog alternative "Enigme du don. English".
- catalog contributor b11067349.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-221) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: concerning things that are given, things that are sold and things that must not be given or sold, but kept -- The legacy of Mauss -- Substitute objects for humans and for the Gods -- The sacred -- The dis-enchanted gift.".
- catalog description "When we think of giving gifts, we think of exchanging objects that carry with them economic or symbolic value. But is every valuable thing a potentially exchangeable item, whose value can be transferred? In The Enigma of the Gift, the distinguished French anthropologist Maurice Godelier reassesses the significance of gifts in social life by focusing on sacred objects, which are never exchanged despite the value they possess. Beginning with an analysis of the seminal work of Marcel Mauss and Claude Levi-Strass, and drawing on his own fieldwork in Melanesia, Godelier argues that traditional theories are flawed because they consider only exchangeable gifts. By explaining gift-giving in terms of sacred objects and the authoritative conferral of power associated with them, Godelier challenges both recent and traditional theories of gift-giving, provocatively refreshing a traditional debate. Elegantly translated by Nora Scott, The Enigma of the Gift is at once a major theoretical contribution and an essential guide to the history of the theory of the gift.".
- catalog extent "vii, 256 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0226300447 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0226300455 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "[Chicago] : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog subject "394 21".
- catalog subject "Baruya (Papua New Guinean people) Commerce.".
- catalog subject "Ceremonial exchange.".
- catalog subject "Economic anthropology.".
- catalog subject "GN449.8 .G6313 1999".
- catalog subject "Gifts.".
- catalog subject "Mauss, Marcel, 1872-1950. Essai sur le don. English.".
- catalog subject "Mauss, Marcel, 1872-1950. Essai sur le don.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: concerning things that are given, things that are sold and things that must not be given or sold, but kept -- The legacy of Mauss -- Substitute objects for humans and for the Gods -- The sacred -- The dis-enchanted gift.".
- catalog title "Enigme du don. English".
- catalog title "The enigma of the gift / Maurice Godelier ; translated by Nora Scott.".
- catalog type "text".