OF RELATIONS AND THE DEAD by Cecile Barraud (Editor), Daniel De Coppet (Editor), Andre Iteanu (Editor) ( 9780854969531 )

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Title:

OF RELATIONS AND THE DEAD
FOUR SOCIETIES VIEWED FROM THE ANGLE OF THEIR EXCHANGES

By:

Cecile Barraud (Editor), Daniel De Coppet (Editor), Andre Iteanu (Editor)

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ISBN 10:

0854969535

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9780854969531

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Publisher:

BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC

Pub. date:

4 October, 1994

Series:

Explorations in Anthropology v. 18

Pages:

132

Translated from:

French

Description:

Exchanges are fundamental to human societies. This title shows that the study of exchanges not only serves as a key to understanding particular societies as totalities but also helps to frame a comparative mode of analysis expressed in terms of a hierarchy of values.

Synopsis:

Exchanges are fundamental to human societies. The authors show that the study of exchanges not only serves as a key to understanding particular societies as totalities but also helps to frame a comparative mode of analysis expressed in terms of a hierarchy of values. Starting with a comparative analysis of the different vocabularies used when dealing with exchange, the authors go on to provide a detailed account of how each society's exchanges form a genuine value-oriented system. Their conclusions shed light on important issues in anthropology such as the difference between subject and object; the construction of the person in the matrix of social relations; and the contrast between 'socio-cosmic' systems and other societies which recognize a universal term of reference beyond their community.

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bibliography, index

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Berg Publishers

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