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Gift Exchange

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Since Marcel Mauss published his foundational essay The Gift in 1925, many anthropologists and specialists of international relations have seen in the exchange of gifts, debts, loans, concessions or reparations the sources of international solidarity and international law. Still, Mauss's reflections were deeply tied to the context of interwar Europe and the French colonial expansion. Their normative dimension has been profoundly questioned after the age of decolonization. A century after Mauss, we may ask: what is the relevance of his ideas on gift exchanges and international solidarity? By tracing how Mauss's theoretical and normative ideas inspired prominent thinkers and government officials in France and Algeria, from Pierre Bourdieu to Mohammed Bedjaoui, Grégoire Mallard adds a building block to our comprehension of the role that anthropology, international law, and economics have played in shaping international economic governance from the age of European colonization to the latest European debt crisis. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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ISBN: 9781108489690
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Author: Gregoire Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva Mallard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 280 pages
Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Genres: Law and society, sociology of law
Public international law: diplomatic law
Social and cultural anthropology