Keywords
Alienation
Gift
Commodity
Gender
Melanesia
How to Cite
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to relate some of the questions present in two books based on the subject of the gift, The Enigma of the Gift, by Maurice Godelier, and The Gender of the Gift by Marilyn Strathern, trying to focus specially on a discussion about the concepts of alienation and inalienability, property and possession.
References
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GODELIER, Maurice. The Enigma of the Gift. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
GREGORY, Christopher A. Gifts and Commodities. London: Academic Press, 1982.
JOSEPHIDES, Lisette. Suppressed and Overt Antagonism: A Study in Aspects of Power and Reciprocity Among the Northern Melpa. Research in Melanesia, Occasional Paper 2. Port Moresby: University of Papua New Guinea, 1982.
MAUSS, Marcel. “Ensaio sobre a Dádiva. Forma e Razão da troca nas so-ciedades arcaicas (1925)” in: Sociologia e Antropologia. São Paulo: Cosac & Naify: 2003. p. 183-314.
STRATHERN, Marylin. The Gender of the Gift. Berkeley: University of Cali-fornia Press, 1988.
WEINER, Annette. Inalienable Possessions: the paradox of keeping-while-giving. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
WEINER, Annette. Reproduction: a replacement for reciprocity. American Ethnologist 7, p. 71-85, 1980.
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