(DOWNLOAD) "Of Relations and the Dead" by Cécile BARRAUD, Daniel de Coppet, André Iteanu & Raymond Jamous # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Of Relations and the Dead
- Author : Cécile BARRAUD, Daniel de Coppet, André Iteanu & Raymond Jamous
- Release Date : January 13, 2020
- Genre: Anthropology,Books,Nonfiction,Social Science,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 4507 KB
Description
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.