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An Analysis of Marcel Mauss's The Gift The Macat Team

An Analysis of Marcel Mauss's The Gift By The Macat Team

An Analysis of Marcel Mauss's The Gift by The Macat Team


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In The Gift (1925), Marcel Mauss elevates a simple gift from the status of innocent object to something that has the capacity to motivate people and define social relationships.

An Analysis of Marcel Mauss's The Gift Summary

An Analysis of Marcel Mauss's The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies by The Macat Team

Marcel Mauss's 1925 essay The Gift is an enduring classic of sociological and anthropological analysis by a thinker who is one of the founding fathers of modern anthropology.

The Gift exploits Mauss's high-level analytical and interpretative skills to produce a brilliant investigation of the forms, meanings, and structures of gift-giving across a range of societies. Mauss, along with many others, had noted that in a wide range of societies - especially those without monetary exchange or legal structures - gift-giving and receiving was carried out according to strict customs and unwritten laws. What he sought to do in The Gift was to analyse the structures that governed how and when gifts were given, received, and reciprocated in order to grasp what implicit and unspoken reasons governed these structures. He also wanted to apply his interpretative skills to asking what such exchanges meant, in order to explore the implications his analysis might have for modern, western cultures. In Mauss's investigations, it became clear that gift-giving is, in many cultures, a crucial structural force, binding people together in a web of reciprocal commitments generated by the laws of gifting. Indeed, he concluded, gifts can be seen as the 'glue' of society..

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Table of Contents

Ways in to the Text Who was Marcel Mauss? What does The Gift Say? Why does The Gift Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited

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NLS9781912128587
9781912128587
1912128586
An Analysis of Marcel Mauss's The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies by The Macat Team
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Macat International Limited
2017-07-05
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