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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781859730461
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-85973-046-1
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
- Erscheinungstermin: 04.10.1994
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 1994
- Serie: Explorations in Anthropology
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 200 g
- Seiten: 140
- Format (B x H x T): 136 x 214 x 34 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt