The Return of the Gift: European History of a Global Idea

by Harry Liebersohn

Book Overview

This book is a history of European interpretations of the gift from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Reciprocal gift exchange, pervasive in traditional European society, disappeared from the discourse of nineteenth-century social theory only to return as a major theme in twentieth-century anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy and literary studies. Modern anthropologists encountered gift exchange in Oceania and the Pacific...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107411416
• ISBN13: 9781107411418
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"