Exchanges are fundamental to human societies. The authors show that the study of exchanges not only serves as a key to understanding particular societies as totalities but also helps to frame a comparative mode of analysis expressed in terms of a hierarchy of values. Starting with a comparative analysis of the different vocabularies used when dealing with exchange, the authors go on to provide a detailed account of how each society’s exchanges form a genuine value-oriented system. Their conclusions shed light on important issues in anthropology such as the difference between subject and object; the construction of the person in the matrix of social relations; and the contrast between ‘socio-cosmic’ systems and other societies which recognize a universal term of reference beyond their community.
Cecile Barraud & Daniel de Coppet
Of Relations and the Dead [EPUB ebook]
Four Societies Viewed from the Angle of Their Exchanges
Of Relations and the Dead [EPUB ebook]
Four Societies Viewed from the Angle of Their Exchanges
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Limba Engleză ● Format EPUB ● Pagini 132 ● ISBN 9781000323337 ● Editor Cecile Barraud & Daniel de Coppet ● Editura Taylor and Francis ● Publicat 2020 ● Descărcabil 3 ori ● Valută EUR ● ID 7962479 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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