The Gift of Oneself from the Perspective of New Readings of “The Gift” by Marcel Mauss

• Authors: Maria Do Socorro Malatesta Freitas
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies, by Marcel Mauss, is an important reference in Social Sciences for thinking about the theme of the gift, proposed in this congress. This brief work has as goal to present a rereading of The Gift by contemporary authors that try to think today’s society under this perspective. It’s a literature review of books and articles by Allain Caillé, Jacques Godbout and some Brazilian authors: Eric Sabourin, Marcos Lanna, Paulo Henrique Martins and Jorge Luiz Villela. It is important to emphasize, according to Caillé, 1998, that “the paradigm of the gift is not a machine for blowing solutions, but for inspiring questions”.

Keywords

EN

gift; social bond; marcel mauss

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Journal for Perspectives of Economic Political and Social Integration
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 39-46

Dates

online

2014-07-17

Contributors

author

Maria Do Socorro Malatesta Freitas

References

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10241-012-0002-x