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Gift exchange : the transnational history of a political idea
- Title
- Gift exchange : the transnational history of a political idea / Grégoire Mallard.
- Author
- Mallard, Grégoire, 1977-
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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- Description
- xi, 293 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Since Marcel Mauss published his foundational essay The Gift in 1925, many anthropologists and specialists of international relations have seen in the exchange of gifts, debts, loans, concessions or reparations the sources of international solidarity and international law. Still, Mauss's reflections were deeply tied to the context of interwar Europe and the French colonial expansion. Their normative dimension has been profoundly questioned after the age of decolonization. A century after Mauss, we may ask: what is the relevance of his ideas on gift exchanges and international solidarity? By tracing how Mauss's theoretical and normative ideas inspired prominent thinkers and government officials in France and Algeria, from Pierre Bourdieu to Mohammed Bedjaoui, Gregoire Mallard adds a building block to our comprehension of the role that anthropology, international law, and economics have played in shaping international economic governance from the age of European colonization to the latest European debt crisis. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core"--
- Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in law and society
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge studies in law and society.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. The History of a Political Idea: Gifts, Trusts, Reparations and Other Fetishes of International Solidarity -- 2. The Cast: Marcel Mauss and His Legacy in the French Fields of Power -- 3. The Gift and European Solidarity: Marcel Mauss and the Politics of Reparation in Interwar Europe -- 4. The Gift as Colonial Ideology: Marcel Mauss and French Colonial Policy before and after the Great War -- 5. Mauss's Disciples in Algeria: The Anthropology of the Gift and the Shock of Decolonization -- 6. Decolonizing The Gift: Nationalization and Sovereign Debt Cancellation in North-South Relations -- 7. International Solidarity and Gift Exchange in the Eurozone.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-6741
- ISBN
- 9781108453486
- 1108453481
- 9781108489690
- 1108489699
- LCCN
- 2018042538
- OCLC
- 1055458500
- Author
- Mallard, Grégoire, 1977- author.
- Title
- Gift exchange : the transnational history of a political idea / Grégoire Mallard.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cambridge studies in law and societyCambridge studies in law and society.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-6741