Du site de l'éd.: In recent decades, the dialogue between art and anthropology has been both intense and controversial. Art, Anthropology and the Gift provides a much-needed and comprehensive overview of this dialogue, whilst also exploring the reciprocal nature of the two subje…
Prés. de l'éd.: II n'existe pas un domaine de la vie où le don n'a pas apporté une vision nouvelle : économie, entreprise, éthique, santé, numérique ... Mais pour comprendre le don, peut-on ignorer les travaux de Mauss qui, maintenant encore, possèdent une étonnante force explic…
Gifts are always with us: we use them positively to display affection and show gratitude for favours; we suspect that others give and accept them as douceurs and bribes. The gift also performed these roles in early modern English culture: and assumed a more significant role beca…
4e de couv.: Christopher A. Gregory's Gifts and commodities is one of the undisputed classics of economic anthropology. On its publication in 1982, it spurred intense, ongoing debates about gifts and gifting, value, exchange, and the place of political economy in anthropology. G…
4e de couv. : Representing a new wave of thinking about material culture studies-a topic long overdue for reevaluation-the essays in this volume take a fresh look at the relationship between material culture and exchange theory and illuminate the changing patterns of cultural fl…
