Gifting the other, or why are nineteenth-century German bourgeois men acting like Trobriand Islanders?

Taking its lead from analyses of gift exchange by Marcel Mauss and Marshall Sahlins as well as of contact by Charles Long and Jonathan Z Smith, this article elaborates a theory of the exchange, among dominant social subjects, of representations of their subjected proximate others in order to rectify...

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Main Author: Geller, Jay 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2013]
In: Critical research on religion
Year: 2013, Volume: 1, Issue: 3, Pages: 293-307
Further subjects:B Women
B gift exchange
B Representation
B G W F Hegel
B Contact
B other(s)
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