Gift Exchange: The Transnational History of a Political Idea

Grégoire Mallard

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Gift Exchange

The Transnational History of a Political Idea

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Grégoire Mallard, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: March 2019
Print publication year:: 2019
Online ISBN:: 9781108570497
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108570497
Creative Commons:: This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses

Subjects:: Socio-Legal Studies, Law, Political Sociology, Sociology
Series:: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society

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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.

Join winner, 2020 History of Sociology Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, American Sociological Association

'Against the usual view of Marcel Mauss as an armchair anthropologist, secluded in the higher reaches of the academia, Grégoire Mallard explores the many social milieus in which Mauss operated, including early twentieth-century socialist politics, journalism, high finance, and the emerging state technocracy. Mallard shows how Mauss’s classic essay, The Gift, offered a complex worldview that had a profound influence on generations of politicians and public intellectuals involved in everything from the debate on German reparations to pre-war colonial politics in France, the North-South conflict post-1960, and current sovereign debt issues. In short, this is a most remarkable book, extremely well researched and elegantly written.'

Jerome Sgard - Sciences-Po Paris

'Original and very well documented, Grégoire Mallard’s book is a masterpiece at the confluence of many disciplines: history of ideas, anthropology, sociology, and political science. Mallard offers a new interpretation of Marcel Mauss’s The Gift while linking the two sides of his work, his anthropological essays on exchange and reciprocity, and his political reflections on nation, peace, and war.'

Marcel Fournier - University of Montreal and author of Marcel Mauss: A Biography

'This book is a gem. It is full of insights about a topic - sovereign debt crises - that is, unfortunately, timely. Professor Mallard’s insights about Mauss and gift exchange, and their relationship to key events in the history of sovereign debt resolution were stunning to me. For those interested in the meaning of sovereignty in the post-colonial era, this is a must read. Plus, it is fun.'

Mitu Gulati - Duke University, North Carolina

'Grégoire Mallard offers an extraordinary exploration of the ongoing relevance of Mauss’s The Gift both to scholarship and, above all, to political life, during the mid-twentieth century. Mallard tracks Mauss’s concepts and influence through the creation of new interdependences, the re-emergence of attention to the local, and the creation of new trade conventions. He includes themes that English-speaking readers may know very little about due to the centrality of French post-colonial life, such as the ongoing relations of France and Algeria. A remarkably original resource and inspiration.'

Jane I. Guyer - The Johns Hopkins University

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Gift Exchange
pp i-i

Cambridge Studies in Law and Society - Series page
pp ii-ii

Gift Exchange - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Figures
pp vi-vi

Acknowledgments
pp vii-ix

Abbreviations
pp x-xii

1 - The History of a Political Idea
pp 1-13

2 - The Cast
pp 14-42

3 - The Gift and European Solidarity
pp 43-84

4 - The Gift as Colonial Ideology
pp 85-120

5 - Marcel Mauss’s Disciples in Algeria
pp 121-157

6 - Decolonizing The Gift
pp 158-199

7 - International Solidarity and Gift Exchange in the Eurozone
pp 200-221

Notes
pp 222-263

Bibliography
pp 264-283

Index
pp 284-293

Books in the Series - Series page
pp 294-294

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