Akademibokhandeln
Harry Liebersohn - The Return of the Gift, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

The Return of the Gift

European History of a Global Idea

Av Harry Liebersohn

2089 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

Beskrivning
This book is a history of European interpretations of the gift from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Reciprocal gift exchange, pervasive in traditional European society, disappeared from the discourse of nineteenth-century social theory only to return as a major theme in twentieth-century anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy and literary studies. Modern anthropologists encountered gift exchange in Oceania and the Pacific Northwest and returned the idea to European social thought; Marcel Mauss synthesized their insights with his own readings from remote times and places in his famous 1925 essay on the gift, the starting-point for subsequent discussion. The Return of the Gift demonstrates how European intellectual history can gain fresh significance from global contexts.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2010-12-06
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 16 mm
  • Vikt: 460 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 224
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781107002180
Utforska kategorier
Mer information

Harry Liebersohn is a Professor of History in the Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of several books, including Fate and Utopia in German Sociology, 1871-1923 (1988), Aristocratic Encounters: European Travelers and North American Indians (Cambridge University Press, 1998) and The Travelers' World, Europe to the Pacific (2006). His article 'Discovering Indigenous Nobility: Tocqueville, Chamisso, and Romantic Travel Writing', which appeared in the American Historical Review, was awarded the 1995 William Koren, Jr Prize of the Society for French Historical Studies. Professor Liebersohn was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1996-1997 and a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin) in 2006-2007.

Recensioner i media

Review of the hardback: 'Lively, deeply informed, and interpretively adventurous, The Return of the Gift is itself a gift to scholars across the human sciences and humanities. Liebersohn provides a bracing and generative account of this key concept, locating it in an intellectual lineage of wrestling with cultural differentiation, evolutionary models, and ethical concerns. In the best Maussian spirit, this innovative book invites our engagement - and amply repays it.' Donald Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz

Butikslager

Ej i lager i butik.

Betyg & recensioner

0 recensioner

Inga recensioner tillgängliga.