Donating is a market (of debt)
Starting out from a rereading of Marcel Mauss’s groundbreaking study “The Gift” (1924) and its successive reworkings by Levi-Strauss and Bourdieu, and drawing on fieldwork from Africa, this paper proposes another interpretation of the phenomenon of gift-giving as a central modality for the circulati...
Main Author: | Alain Marie |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Institut Veolia Environnement
2012-06-01
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Series: | Field Actions Science Reports |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/factsreports/1598 |
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