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

Main Author: Sykes, Karen Margaret, 1960-
Corporate Author: Routledge
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London: Routledge, 2005
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • A critical introduction to theories of gift exchange
  • The awkward legacy of the noble savage
  • Collecting evidence on the Kula exchange
  • Keeping obligations and keeping relations
  • Exchanging people, forming alliances
  • Debt in postcolonial context
  • Mistaking how and when to give
  • Envisioning bourgeois subjects
  • Giving beyond reason
  • Interests in cultural property
  • Virtually real exchange
  • Giving anthropology a-way