Gift Exchange: The Transnational History of a Political Idea

ISBN-13: 9781108453486 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 280 str.

Grégoire Mallard

Opis

Examines gift exchanges as a foundational notion both in anthropology and in debates about international economic governance. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Recenzje

'Grégoire Mallard offers an extraordinary exploration of the ongoing relevance of Mauss's The Gift both to scholarship and, above all, to political life, during the mid-twentieth century. Mallard tracks Mauss's concepts and influence through the creation of new interdependences, the re-emergence of attention to the local, and the creation of new trade conventions. He includes themes that English-speaking readers may know very little about due to the centrality of French post-colonial life, such as the ongoing relations of France and Algeria. A remarkably original resource and inspiration.' Jane I. Guyer, The Johns Hopkins University

Spis treści

1. The history of a political idea: gifts, trusts, reparations and other fetishes of international solidarity; 2. The cast: Marcel Mauss and his legacy in the French fields of power; 3. The gift and European solidarity: Marcel Mauss and the politics of reparation in interwar Europe; 4. The gift as colonial ideology: Marcel Mauss and French colonial policy before and after the Great War; 5. Mauss's disciples in Algeria: the anthropology of the gift and the shock of decolonization; 6. Decolonizing the gift: nationalization and sovereign debt cancellation in North-South relations; 7. International solidarity and gift exchange in the Eurozone.