Marcel Mauss

social obligation or personal relationship. It avoids the feeling of obligation and gratitude that is involved in gift giving. Gift giving on the other hand, is enacted when both parties have a means to establish some sort of relationship. According to Mauss, gift exchange creates reciprocal relationship between the giver and the receiver. By accepting a gift, the receiver perpetually becomes indebted to the giver, and has a moral obligation to return the gift in another…

Class one. What characterises capitalism according to Marx and Engels? According to Marx and Engels, capitalism is a system that seeks to constantly increase profits. The capitalist system does so by keeping the cost of the production lower than the sales price, and if necessary by creating new or bigger markets. (For an example, a new market was created when body hair on women suddenly became a problem, so they then needed to go out and buy shavers.) Therefore, Marx sees the capitalist system…

Both Marx and Marcel Mauss were particularly attentive to this feature. They were aware of how the fetishism of money, its apparent ability to render all items comparable, fuels inequality. It is not the process of exchange in itself that renders things equal. Rather it…

and complicated beyond lines of a chart, biology and legality. Further, my kinship chart relates to Karl Marx’s idea of the commodity fetish, in which relatives from my kinship tree were victims of such unjust and unreciprocated labor. Lastly, Marcel Mauss’ concept of gift exchange is stressed in relationships, and thus in my kinship, gift exchanges are a method of reciprocity and exchange also, forming to this a part in society based around commodity…

small differences that exist culturally and how behaviors seem to be based on location, circumstances, beliefs, etc, supporting the belief that body language is not universal and varies across cultures. Blakemore and Jennett 's article references Marcel Mauss (1979), an anthropologist, who states "That the most elementary aspects of physical behaviour, such as the ways in which people eat, sleep, walk, or sit, seem to be culturally determined, and vary greatly from society to society" (p. 5).…

appreciation for the gifts they receive. here, although reciprocity is not expressly intended in such exchange, it is however practiced as gifts objects are never truly free. This safeguard the economic interest attributed to the concept of the gift.(Marcel Mauss…

Economy is an important aspect of culture. Different society has different view and perception on economics such as consumption and object value. The hunting-gathering society is perceived to be traditional and poor. A research done by Sahlins (1972) shows that Hunting-gathering society is actually content with what they have and Gusinde (as cited by Riza Wahyuna, 17 January 2015) remarked that they consider tangible objects to be a burden. However, to modern societies, tangible objects are…