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This volume offers a reassessment of the function and importance of gifts in social life and in the constitution of social relations, using the work of Marcel Mauss in the early 20th century as a starting point.
"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 ma…