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The Obligation to Reciprocate Gifts and the Spirit of the Item Given: From Marcel Mauss to René Maunier
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 April 2024
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In Essai sur le don (Essay on Gifts), a work that the author himself noted was only indicative and incomplete, Marcel Mauss recommended in his conclusions on general sociology and morality that the analysis should be taken further and future research should focus on certain cultural areas that he had not been able to take into account: Micronesia, Indochina, Tibet, Burma, and North Africa, among others. And he stressed the existence, among the Berbers, of “remarkable practices of taoussa,” the study of which, he said, had been the business of Doutté and Maunier (Mauss 1968b: 274, n. 1).
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