ISBN: 9780520076037 - inalienable possessions: the paradox of keeping-while giving (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Tests anthropology's assumptions about kinship, economics, power, and gender, and challenges theories of reciprocity and marriage exchange. This book investigates the category of possessions that must not be given or, if they are circulated, must return finally to the giver. It argues that reciprocity is only the superficial aspect of exchange. …