Gifts and Nations: The Obligation to Give, Receive and Repay - Image 1

£39.83

Routledge Gifts and Nations: The Obligation to Give, Receive and Repay

Name: Gifts and Nations: The Obligation to Give, Receive and Repay
Brand: Routledge
Price: 38.96 GBP
Availability: InStock

Anthropology & Sociology

Price History & Forecast

Last 31 days • 31 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 31 days • 3 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £40 (15 days, 48.4%)

Price range: £39 - £40

Price levels: 3 different prices over 31 days

Description

What can men in industrial nations learn from their "primitive" contemporaries, and the habits of earlier civilizations? This book by acclaimed cultural anthropologist Wilton S. Dillon suggests that modern political, religious, and scientific communities--and alliances--would be enhanced greatly if we understood how gift exchange and reciprocity helped to balance earlier institutions and societies. Using the example of the gift behavior of France and the United States during the Marshall Plan period, Gifts and Nations examines the troubles that arise between donors and recipients when a generous donor remains innocent of the recipient's desire to give back things or ideas to which both attach value. Such innocence may produce what the author calls "the Gaullist effect"--a quest for self-esteem, autonomy, and initiative by a person, or a nation, who feels burdened and controlled by undischarged obligations. Gifts and Nations is very much an historical footnote to the rise of PaxAmericana--the American empire having been launched in 1898, enlarged in the aftermath of World War II and the Cold War, and now the subject of global debate. This volume emphasizes that building coalitions and keeping alliances strong require multi-lateralism based on reciprocity.

Key Features

Used Book in Good Condition

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: paperback
ASIN: 0765805456
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 September 2003
Listed Since: 23 December 2006

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge Gifts and Nations: The Obligation to Give, Receive and Repay

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Key Features

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Routledge Gifts of Cooperation, Mauss and Pragmatism Book

Reciprocity Rules: Friendship and Compensation in Fieldwork Encounters

Roots of the Pax Americana: Decolonisation, Development, Democratisation and Trade

Paradoxes of Culture and Globalization

Smithsonian Stories: Chronicle of a Golden Age, 1964-1984

Towards the Dignity of Difference?: Neither 'End of History' nor 'Clash of Civilizations' (Ethics and Global Politics)

Myth and Reality in International Politics: Meeting Global Challenges through Collective Action (International Studies Intensives)

Gifts of Cooperation, Mauss and Pragmatism (Routledge Global Cooperation Series)

Process and Pattern in Culture: Essays in Honor of Julian H. Steward

Commerce and Community: Ecologies of Social Cooperation (Economics as Social Theory)

Routledge Anthropology and the Economy of Sharing Book

Nation of Nations

Civilizations and World Order: Geopolitics and Cultural Difference (Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory)

Routledge Civilizations in World Politics - Academic Book

The Social Anthropology of the Nation-State

Arguing with anthropology: An Introduction to Critical Theories of the Gift

The Cultural Foundations of Nations: Hierarchy, Covenant, and Republic

Routledge Globalization, Governmentality and Global Politics

Glorious Causes: The Irrationality of Capitalism, War and Politics (Universalizing Resistance)

Frontiers of Capital: Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy

Routledge - The Gift and its Paradoxes Social Theory Book

Routledge Globalization: A Reader - Comprehensive Textbook

The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Anthropology (Routledge Anthropology Handbooks)

Methods and Nations: Cultural Governance and the Indigenous Subject (Global Horizons)