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    <body><![CDATA[This is my second time reading this book, and I wonder how many more times I'll have to read it in my life.  Not that I'm complaining.  This essay is 80 something pages packed with theoretical insights, many of which still seem radical today.  The Gift is also really old school in a lot of problemat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35738941">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is old and a bit positivist in its approach, but has been referenced by at least two scholars who are important for my dissertation and seems in general to be very seminal in the area of the anthropology of gift exchange.  Don't know how much I'll reference this book specifically, but I th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13415913">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Marcel Mauss' seminal work of ethnography reviews the practice of the 'potlatch' in a number of archaic societies throughout the world. His analysis and empirical data are far reaching and highly specific, drawing on a number of the finest researchers in the field (such as Malinowski). Mauss' observ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34677970">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the foundational works of modern anthropology, and twentieth-century social sciences in general.  It gets high marks for addressing actual societies' practices, rather than the ideological fantasies of what they were supposed to mean (a massive failing of most Marxist-influenced social scienc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78273386">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just reread this marvelous book for an article for the Cerisy conference &quot;Mauss vivant.&quot; Every time I read it I discover something else inside. I now see it's as much about the law as it is about the gift.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Whew.  Made it through the whole thing]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[dulu saya membaca ini karena ingin tahu mengenai konsep 'uang', komoditas dan berbagai rasa 'hutang' karena pemberian dari teman/ keluarga.<br/>selanjutnya, saya membaca george simmel dan bourdieu untuk melengkapinya.<br/>asyik. cuma gambar covernya menyesatkan kita.<br/>kita terbelokkan ke kesan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4132213">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book comes from one of the greatest anthropologist of the 20th century. It is a great study of giving in archaic cultures, but more than that it really manages to get to the soul of why we give and how exchange and the things that come with that explain who we are.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A classic study of so called &quot;pre-capitalist&quot; gift exchange economies. It definitely reads like an anthropological study published in 1950, but it's the seminal text on gift giving. I also like how Mauss ends a not taking on capitalism and communism. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting (and brief) read explaining how gift giving is a 'total social system' in polynesian and pacific northwest cultures. It certainly makes you question some of  the traditional assumptions of mainstream economics. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[rethinking exchange as pre-capitalist. the data is fun and so are the introduction/conclusion universal pronouncements.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you're intereseted in social anthropology or ethnography, this book is worth checking out.  <br/><br/>Enjoy!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the basis for all social interaction aming human beings. Need I say more?  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[SUPER interesting book on the way &quot;gifts&quot; work in various societies.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[time to rethink why we give things to people.]]></body>
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