Of Relations and the Dead: Four Societies Viewed from the Angle of Their Exchanges (Explorations in Anthropology)

by RaymondJamous (Editor), Danielde Coppet (Editor), Cecile Barraud (Editor), Andre Iteanu (Editor), StephenJ.Suffern (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  1994

  $44.70

  Exchanges are fundamental to human societies. This work sheds 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.

• New

  Hardcover
  1994

  $193.81

  Exchanges are fundamental to human societies. This title shows 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.