Arguing with anthropology : an introduction to critical theories of the gift / / Karen Sykes.
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| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | x, 244 p. :; ill., map. |
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Table of Contents:
- A sceptical introduction to theories of gift exchange
- The awkward legacy of the noble savage
- Gathering thoughts in fieldwork
- Keeping relationships, meeting obligations
- Exchanging people, giving reasons
- Debt in postcolonial society
- Mistaking how and when to give
- Envisioning bourgeois subjects
- Giving beyond reason
- Virtually real exchange
- Interests in cultural property
- Giving anthropology a/way.