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- Fuller, C. J. (1992). "Review of The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies". Man. 27 (2): 431–433. doi:10.2307/2804090. ISSN 0025-1496. JSTOR 2804090.
- Goldschmidt, Walter (1955). "Review of The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies". American Anthropologist. 57 (6): 1299–1300. ISSN 0002-7294. JSTOR 665973.
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- Lévy-Bruhl, Henri; Mauss, M. (1927). "Review of Essai sur le don, forme archaïque de l'échange (Année sociologique, nouvelle série, I), M. Mauss". Revue historique de droit français et étranger (1922-). 6 (1): 123–127. ISSN 0035-3280. JSTOR 43848577.
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- Schlanger, Nathan (2008). "Review of Essai sur le don. Forme et raison de l'échange dans les sociétés archaïques". Durkheimian Studies / Études Durkheimiennes. 14: 119–121. ISSN 1362-024X. JSTOR 23866544.
- Tumin, Melvin M. (1956). "Review of The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies". American Sociological Review. 21 (2): 249–250. doi:10.2307/2088549. ISSN 0003-1224. JSTOR 2088549.
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- Leeson, Whitney A. M. (2002). "Review of The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France". The Sixteenth Century Journal. 33 (4): 1226–1228. doi:10.2307/4144222. ISSN 0361-0160. JSTOR 4144222.
Davis begins her thick description of gifts in sixteenth-century review of the anthropological gift literature written in the seventy-fivlication of Marcel Mauss's classic The Gift (NewYork and London:Wtightly written, seven-page introduction Davis introduces the reader toencountered in a typical Economic Anthropology graduate seminaWeiner, Levi-Strauss, Thomas, Carrier, Gregory, Sahlins) as well as htheir mark upon the gift literature (e.g. Finley, Duby, Little, Hermanwanting to know what they should read with regard to the gift economto-the-bare-essentials synopsis of a literature even anthropologists find
- Gregory, Chris (2000). "Review of The Enigma of the Gift". The Journal of Pacific History. 35 (1): 116–117. ISSN 0022-3344. JSTOR 25169471.
The book divides into three sections. The first consists of a long chapter (100 pages) on Mauss. Here Godelier the philosopher subjects Mauss's classic essay to classic critique: criticism, modification, transcendence. Every line, every footnote, every theme has been scrutinised as never before. Readings of this type run the risk of becoming exercises in pedantic scholasticism, but Godelier avoids this by skilful use of the dialectical (question/answer/new question) method. The result is a lively discussion that manages to integrate a broad range of recent ethnographic description and philosophising. Godelier begins by questioning Mauss's question about the obligations to give, to receive and repay. More precisely, he questions Mauss's attempt to decipher the 'enigma' of the gift by focusing on 'the power in the object that causes its recipient to give it back'. Godelier sides with L?vi-Strauss who argued that Mauss was mystified by indigenous theory when he formulated the problematic in this way.
- Mossman, Stephen (2011). "Review of The Return of the Gift: European History of a Global Idea". Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. 54 (4): 593–596. ISSN 0022-4995. JSTOR 41445713.
Harry Liebersohns concise study charts the way in which reciprocaexchange as a fundamental structure of social interaction was written of European history in the mid-seventeenth century (in theory) and inlate eighteenth century (in practice), before its influential restoration iform of Marcel Mauss' 'Essai sur le Don in 1925.1 It is a story of peripand centre; of the manner in which the European centre rejected the nworks of gift exchange encountered in their growing imperial peripheas pre-modern, unsophisticated, and unenlightened at best, and at worsimply corrupt, before the new empirical anthropology of the early ttieth century rediscovered the gift at the margins of the Pacific Rimthe Trobriand Islanders, the Kwakwaka'wakw of Vancouver Island,the Banaro people of inland New Guinea returned the gift to a ctorn apart by the First World War. It is also a story of absence; a searexplain why the great social theorists of the nineteenth century, from and Engels through Weber to Mauss mentor Emile Dürkheim, haplace for gift exchange in their conceptual frameworks.
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