The return of the gift : European history of a global idea

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 Northwest And Returned The Idea To European Social Thought; Marcel Mauss Synthesized Their Insights With His Own Readings From Remote Times And Places In His Famous 1925 Essay On The Gift, The Starting-point For Subsequent Discussion. The Return Of The Gift Demonstrates How European Intellectual History Can Gain Fresh Significance From Global Contexts--provided By Publisher. 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 Northwest And Returned The Idea To European Social Thought; Marcel Mauss Synthesized Their Insights With His Own Readings From Remote Times And Places In His Famous 1925 Essay On The Gift, The Starting-point For Subsequent Discussion. The Return Of The Gift Demonstrates How European Intellectual History Can Gain Fresh Significance From Global Contexts--provided By Publisher. Machine Generated Contents Note: Introduction; 1. The Crisis Of The Gift: Warren Hastings And His Critics; 2. Liberalism, Self-interest, And The Gift; 3. The Selfless 'savage': Theories Of Primitive Communism; 4. Anthropologists And The Power Of The Gift: Boas, Thurnwald, Malinowski; 5. Marcel Mauss And The Globalized Gift; Conclusion. Harry Liebersohn. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover......Page 1 Frontmatter......Page 2 Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Introduction......Page 14 1 - The Crisis of the Gift......Page 22 Hastings and the Gift on Trial......Page 23 Edmund Burke on Hastings's Corruption of the Gift......Page 29 James Mill's Emancipation from the Gift......Page 32 Ghulam Hussain on Britain's Refusal of the Gift......Page 36 2 - Liberalism, Self-Interest, and the Gift......Page 40 Hobbes and the Voluntary Gift......Page 42 Mandeville's Rejection of the Gift......Page 44 Adam Smith on Modern Liberality......Page 48 Friedrich List, German Economics, and the Turn to History......Page 53 Karl Bücher and the Making of Economic Anthropology......Page 57 Bücher and the Return of the Gift......Page 66 3 - The Selfless "Savage"......Page 74 Adam Ferguson and the Rude Republic of Virtue......Page 76 Lewis Henry Morgan on Kinship and Community......Page 78 Engels and Marx on Primitive Communism......Page 99 4 - Anthropologists and the Power of the Gift......Page 108 Franz Boas and the Kwakiutl Potlatch......Page 110 Richard Thurnwald and Banaro Marriage......Page 117 Bronislaw Malinowski and the Kula Ring......Page 135 5 - Marcel Mauss and the Globalized Gift......Page 152 The Community of the Gift: Mauss and the Durkheim School......Page 153 The Anthropology of the Gift in Oceania, the American Northwest, and Europe......Page 164 The Politics of the Gift and the Crisis of Postwar Europe......Page 171 Conclusion......Page 178 Notes......Page 184 Selected Bibliography......Page 212 Index......Page 218 This book is a history of modern European interpretations of the gift in global context.--Résumé de l'éditeur