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Christopher A. Gregory’s Gifts and Commodities is one of the undisputed classics of economic anthropology. On its publication in 1982, it spurred intense, ongoing debates about gifts and gifting, value, exchange, and the place of political economy in anthropology.

Gifts and Commodities is, at once, a critique of neoclassical economics and development theory, a critical history of colonial Papua New Guinea, and a comparative ethnography of exchange in Melanesian societies. This new edition includes a foreword by anthropologist Marilyn Strathern and a new preface by the author that discusses the ongoing response to the book and the debates it has engendered, debates that have become more salient in our evermore neoliberal and globalized era.


Request Code : ZLIBIO3168353
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Year:
2015
Publisher:
HAU Books; Second Edition, Revised
Language:
English
Pages:
336
ISBN 10:
0990505014
ISBN 13:
9780990505013
ISBN:
0990505014,9780990505013

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