Gift Exchange: The Transnational History of a Political Idea

by Grégoire Mallard

Book Overview

Since Marcel Mauss published his foundational essay The Gift in 1925, many anthropologists and specialists of international relations have seen in the exchange of gifts, debts, loans, concessions or reparations the sources of international solidarity and international law. Still, Mauss's reflections were deeply tied to the context of interwar Europe and the French colonial expansion. Their normative dimension has been profoundly questioned after the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108453481
• ISBN13: 9781108453486
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"