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~~DECKJS~~ # Marcel Mauss and the gift # ## Marcel Mauss and the gift ## Ryan Schram Mills 169 (A26) ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au Wednesday,... ngka of Kawelka was preparing a //moka//, a major gift of 600 pigs, cassowaries, and thousands of dollar... arned also that he did not only want to give this gift, he had to, because Perewa and his followers had

3.1

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the most influential theories of society. * The gift entails three obligations: to give, to receive, and to reciprocate. * The gift has obligations because societies are more than t... “spirit of the thing given.” When someone gives a gift, they give part of themselves. “The hau wishes to... if we lived in a world in which everything was a gift, and everything possessed a hau? ## Spheres of e

3.2

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thro.rschram.org/1002/3.2 ## What happens when a gift system encounters a market economy? ## When soci... convert money and bought items into a new kind of gift. * Ongka (of Kawelka) includes money, a truck a... d is all about" (Sahlins, 1992, 14). ## When a gift system meets a commodity system When a society o

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a single global system. We have already seen how gift systems adapt to their contact with global market... men's roles in families. * Both labor markets and gift systems are male dominated. * Women fill in the g

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a single global system. We have already seen how gift systems adapt to their contact with global market... n moral values which contrast with those found in gift-based societies. ## Dichotomous thinking ## An... men's roles in families. * Both labor markets and gift systems are male dominated. * Women fill in the g

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# "Pigs are our strong thing" # ## Ongka and the gift ## Ryan Schram Mills 169 (A26) ryan.schram@syd

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ll introduce a key concept in anthropology: **the gift**. Through this concept, the conflicts and contra

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

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tion with respect to the whole system ## When a gift system meets a commodity system, there are many p

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men's roles in families. * Both labor markets and gift systems are male dominated. * Women fill in the g

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Developed / undeveloped * Custom / rationality * Gift / commodity * Love / money ## The snake and the

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Developed / undeveloped * Custom / rationality * Gift / commodity * Love / money Each society, big or

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rsity of Chicago Press. Mauss, Marcel. 1990. The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Soci