{"product_id":"9781859730461","title":"Of Relations and the Dead: Four Societies Viewed from the Angle of Their Exchanges","description":"\u003cp\u003eExchanges 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berg Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032669077744,"sku":"9781859730461","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781859730461_p0.jpg?v=1763599808","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781859730461","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}