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Essai sur le don
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Marcel Mauss |
Classic work of anthropology, on the social function of gift exchange. First published in French in 1950. First translated into English 1954. Has inspired many subsequent studies of gift-giving. |
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Anthropology and Politics of Commodity Exchange
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Chris Gregory |
A theoretically and ethnographically informed collection of essays which opens up questions through an examination of concrete cases, covering global and local questions of political economy. |
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Swap!
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Steve Light |
A peg-legged youngster uses his bartering skills to trade for sails, anchors, a ship's wheel and other necessary supplies to fix their ship and make a friend in the process. |
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Economy and nature in the fourteenth century
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Joel Kaye |
This book provides new perspectives on the ways in which scholastic natural philosophy anticipated and contributed to the emergence of scientific thought. Historians of medieval science have hesitate… |
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The culture of strangers
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G. Eric Hansen |
"The Culture of Strangers challenges the conventional wisdom underlying the intense debates over multiculturalism and globalization. It asserts that modernity is the inescapable consequence of epocha… |
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