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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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• Full title: Of Relations and the Dead
• Subtitle: Four Societies Viewed from the Angle of Their Exchanges
• Author: Cecile Barraud, Danielde Coppet
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 132
• EAN: 9781859730461
• ISBN: 9781859730461
• ID: 05365909
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 204 g
• Dimensions: 214 × 141 × 8 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. October 1994

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