{"product_id":"9780511853500","title":"The Return of the Gift: European History of a Global Idea","description":"This book is a history of European interpretations of the gift from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Reciprocal gift exchange, pervasive in traditional European society, disappeared from the discourse of nineteenth-century social theory only to return as a major theme in twentieth-century anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy and literary studies. Modern anthropologists encountered gift exchange in Oceania and the Pacific Northwest and returned the idea to European social thought; Marcel Mauss synthesized their insights with his own readings from remote times and places in his famous 1925 essay on the gift, the starting-point for subsequent discussion. The Return of the Gift demonstrates how European intellectual history can gain fresh significance from global contexts.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47083553784048,"sku":"9780511853500","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780511853500_p0.jpg?v=1763709426","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780511853500","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}