The Gift (essay)
1925 essay by Marcel Mauss / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies (French: Essai sur le don: forme et raison de l'échange dans les sociétés archaïques) is a 1925 essay by the French sociologist Marcel Mauss that is the foundation of social theories of reciprocity and gift exchange.
For other uses, see The Gift (disambiguation) § Nonfiction and anthologies.