Of Relations and the Dead: Four Societies Viewed from the Angle of Their Exchanges
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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Of Relations and the Dead: Four Societies Viewed from the Angle of Their Exchanges
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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Of Relations and the Dead: Four Societies Viewed from the Angle of Their Exchanges
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ISBN-13: | 9780854969531 |
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Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Publication date: | 10/04/1994 |
Series: | Explorations in Anthropology |
Edition description: | First Edition |
Pages: | 140 |
Product dimensions: | 5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d) |
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