====== Week 6: Exchange as a social, not economic, fact ======

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

**Required reading:** Mauss ([1925] 1990)

**Supplemental reading:** Piot (1999)

====== References ======

Mauss, Marcel. (1925) 1990. “Selections from Introduction, Chapters 1-2, and Conclusion.” In //The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies//, translated by W. D. Halls, 1–14, 39–46, 78–83. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.


Piot, Charles. 1999. “Exchange: Hierarchies of Value in an Economy of Desire.” In //Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa//, 52–75. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.



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