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Index
Cover
The Return of the Gift: European History of a Global Idea
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 - The Crisis of the Gift
Hastings and the Gift on Trial
Edmund Burke on Hastings's Corruption of the Gift
James Mill's Emancipation from the Gift
Ghulam Hussain on Britain's Refusal of the Gift
2 - Liberalism, Self-Interest, and the Gift
Hobbes and the Voluntary Gift
Mandeville's Rejection of the Gift
Adam Smith on Modern Liberality
Friedrich List, German Economics, and the Turn to History
Karl Bücher and the Making of Economic Anthropology
Bücher and the Return of the Gift
3 - The Selfless "Savage"
Adam Ferguson and the Rude Republic of Virtue
Lewis Henry Morgan on Kinship and Community
Engels and Marx on Primitive Communism
4 - Anthropologists and the Power of the Gift
Franz Boas and the Kwakiutl Potlatch
Richard Thurnwald and Banaro Marriage
Bronislaw Malinowski and the Kula Ring
5 - Marcel Mauss and the Globalized Gift
The Community of the Gift: Mauss and the Durkheim School
The Anthropology of the Gift in Oceania, the American Northwest, and Europe
The Politics of the Gift and the Crisis of Postwar Europe
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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