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~~DECKJS~~ ====== The obligations of the gift ====== ===== The obligations of the gift ===== ==== Week 2: Society as a system of total services ===... e**, or to give back to one who has given. ===== Gifts have spirit ===== For Mauss, the Maori word //h... “spirit of the thing given.” When someone gives a gift, they give part of themselves. “The //hau// wishe

2.1

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on underlying many if not all transactions ===== Gifts ===== In the islands of PNG, fishermen exchange... change identical things, like water. Why? ===== Gifts create obligations ===== Mauss says: Because you have to. Gifts come with obligations because it is part of the system of total services. Specifically, giving a gift involves **a triple obligation**: * The obliga

4.2

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n (1959); Bohannan (1955); Sahlins (1992) ===== Gifts and commodities ===== Gift exchange (or reciprocal exchange) and commodity exchange are distinct kind... e now that both modes exist in every society. * Gift exchange and capitalist institutions coexist but ... en draw on money earned in markets to make bigger gifts. Money has led to the **efflorescence** of the /

6.1

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~~DECKJS~~ ====== Global gifts ====== ===== Global gifts ===== ==== Week 6: Global gifts and body shopping ==== Ryan Schram\\ ANTH 1002: Anthropology in the ... y received from overseas as remittances (personal gifts of money) was more than 25% of all foreign trade

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nthropology as critique]] | | |\\ ^ **Module I: Gifts and commodities** ^^^^\\ | **2** | **Society a... | |\\ | Aug 10 | 2. [[2.2|The obligations of the gift ]] | | |\\ | **3** | **A world of commodities** |... hip as social action]] | | |\\ | **6** | **Global gifts and body shopping** | Zharkevich (2019) | Krause... 2010); Vora (2009) |\\ | Sep 05 | 1. [[6.1|Global gifts]] | | |\\ | Sep 07 | 2. [[6.2|The commodificatio

4.1

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and the alienation of value. * But the story of gifts and commodities is not a from–to story: No society is simply walking from gift exchange, reciprocity, and interdependence to ali... ommodity consumption. * Both the logic of the gift and the logic of the commodity coexist in every s

7.1

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00) ===== Society as rules ===== Mauss says the gift comes with obligations for giver and recipient be... g to reciprocate, you have effectively stolen the gift. There is scope for creativity, choice, and inde... y win honor in the eyes of their community by the gifts they reciprocate. ==== A thought experiment: Wh

6.2

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commodification of kin ===== ==== Week 6: Global gifts and body shopping ==== Ryan Schram\\ ANTH 1002:... e chain” linking households through commodity and gift exchanges (Hochschild 2000). (These chains are al

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from Marx. At the same time, Mauss’s idea of the gift can be seen as the logical opposite of the Marxis

5.2

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of exchange among groups in which people are the gifts. Marriage rules are in that light a system of re