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NOT AVAILABLE FOR SALE IN SOME COUNTRIES.;Cataloged from publisher supplied information.;Spoken audio file.;Duration: ca. 02:11:34 hr.;Mode of access: World Wide Web.;Performed by Macat.com.;Originally released by Macat. In The Gift (1925), Marcel Mauss elevates a simple gift from the status of innocent object to something that has the capacity to motivate people and define social relationships. The Gift analyzes cultures across the world and across time, examining the ways gifts are given and received to understand the rules and traditions of many different societies. Gifts can be tangible, like jewelry, or intangible, like the offering of skills. But binding relationships are always created when gifts are given, received, or exchanged. Mauss concludes that this ritual leads to a fairer society. Through gifts, people grasp the importance of their own social obligations.
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In The Gift (1925), Marcel Mauss elevates a simple gift from the status of innocent object to something that has the capacity to motivate people and define social relationships. The Gift analyzes cultures across the world and across time, examining the ways gifts are given and received to understand the rules and traditions of many different societies. Gifts can be tangible, like jewelry, or intangible, like the offering of skills. But binding relationships are always created when gifts are given, received, or exchanged. Mauss concludes that this ritual leads to a fairer society. Through gifts, people grasp the importance of their own social obligations. The Macat Library is the world's leading collection of short analyses of great works. Each analysis looks at one enduringly influential book - unlocking its ideas and explaining the underlying critical thinking skills which made it so important. Book jacket.