Gift Exchange - The Transnational History of a Political Idea

Examines gift exchanges as a foundational notion both in anthropology and in debates about international economic governance. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

List of contents

1. The history of a political idea: gifts, trusts, reparations and other fetishes of international solidarity; 2. The cast: Marcel Mauss and his legacy in the French fields of power; 3. The gift and European solidarity: Marcel Mauss and the politics of reparation in interwar Europe; 4. The gift as colonial ideology: Marcel Mauss and French colonial policy before and after the Great War; 5. Mauss's disciples in Algeria: the anthropology of the gift and the shock of decolonization; 6. Decolonizing the gift: nationalization and sovereign debt cancellation in North-South relations; 7. International solidarity and gift exchange in the Eurozone.

About the author

Grégoire Mallard is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. He is the author of Fallout: Nuclear Diplomacy in an Age of Global Fracture (2014) and co-editor of Contractual Knowledge: One Hundred Years of Legal Experimentation in Global Markets (Cambridge, 2016). His publications focus on prediction, knowledge and ignorance in global governance.

Summary

This book examines gift exchanges as a foundational notion both in anthropology and in debates about international economic governance. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Product details

• Authors: Gre goire Mallard, Gre Goire (Graduate Institute of Internat Mallard, Gre& Mallard, Gre´goire Mallard, Gre¿goire Mallard, Grégoire Mallard
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781108489690
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48969-0
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and S; Cambridge Studies in Law and S; Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / General, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Law & society, Public international law: diplomatic law, Law and society, sociology of law, Diplomatic law