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Arguing with anthropology : an introduction to critical theories of the gift / Karen Sykes.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005Description: 1 online resource (x, 244 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780203491140
  • 9781134523450
  • 9781134523498
  • 9781134523504
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification:
  • 394 S983
LOC classification:
  • GN449.8 .S95 2005
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-236) and index.

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.

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