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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Why this book? Why yet another analysis of gift-exchange of its role in the production and reproduction of social ties of its changing place and importance in the diverse forms of society that coexist on the face of this earth or which have come and gone over the course of time? Because gift-giving exists everywhere even if it is not the same everywhere. But kinship also exists everywhere and reli- gion and politics. So why gift-giving? Why this book? The present work grew out of the encounter between and the converging pressures from two contexts: one sociological the present state of the Western society to which I belong; and the other which is personal in another way and which is the occupation I chose to exer- cise a professional context a state of the theoretical problems today debated by the anthropological community of which I am a member. The sociological context is not peculiar to me. It is there for every- one to see it surrounds us all and like many while I am part of it I did not choose it. I am talking about our Western society which is in the process of excluding more and more people an economic system which in order to remain dynamic and competitive has to “downsize” its firms reduce costs increase productivity and there- fore must decrease the work-force through massive lay-offs (LL)