Introduction – The Narratives of Gifts: Agencies, Resignifications and Transmissions
A full century after Marcel Mauss’s Essai sur le don: forme et raison de l’échange dans les sociétés archaïques (1923-4), our critical understanding of gifts and counter-gifts has much evolved from a perspective that was primarily rooted in classical anthropology and a pacifist, post-World War I Eu...
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Revue française de civilisation britannique
2024
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| Shrnutí: | A full century after Marcel Mauss’s Essai sur le don: forme et raison de l’échange dans les sociétés archaïques (1923-4), our critical understanding of gifts and counter-gifts has much evolved from a perspective that was primarily rooted in classical anthropology and a pacifist, post-World War I European context. As frequently commented on by critics of Mauss’s theory, imperialism and colonialism were largely left out of his analysis, while, as Natalie Zemon Davis underlines, in such context... |
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