An end and a beginning for the gift?
Bernard Juillerat’s argument about the way, in interpretations of Melanesian material, the gift has often been tied to reciprocity embeds the gift in a psychoanalytically informed universe. The power of his argument is acknowledged. Stepping outside such a universe, this article accords a different...
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Journal de la société des océanistes
2013
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Περίληψη: | Bernard Juillerat’s argument about the way, in interpretations of Melanesian material, the gift has often been tied to reciprocity embeds the gift in a psychoanalytically informed universe. The power of his argument is acknowledged. Stepping outside such a universe, this article accords a different kind of power to his observations. It shows how they prompt some anthropologically interesting questions about practices of organ and tissue donation in North America. For where Juillerat would detach the gift from reciprocity, some of those engaged in debates over the ethics of donation would like to see reciprocity attached to the gift. What Euro-American paradigm underlies these arguments? |
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