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  1. Free gifts and positional gifts: Beyond exchangism.Dave Elder-Vass - 2015 - European Journal of Social Theory 18 (4):451-468.
    Social theories of giving have often been shaped by anthropological accounts that present it as a form of pre-market reciprocal exchange, yet this exchangist discourse obscures important contemporary giving practices. This article discusses two types of giving that confound the exchangist model: (1) sharing practices within the family; and (2) free gifts to strangers. Once we reject understandings of giving derived from analyses of non-modern economies, it is possible to see that the gift economy is not a rare survival but (...)
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  • The (anti-)social gift? Mauss’s paradox and the triad of the gift.Seung Cheol Lee - 2020 - European Journal of Social Theory 23 (4):631-648.
    Marcel Mauss’s discussion of the gift relies on a paradox: although gift-giving is the foundational act of building a society, in order for a gift to be circulated, society must be always-already presupposed so that the gift can reach and be recognized by its destination. This article focuses on how this paradox has been addressed in anthropological and philosophical studies of the gift, by reviewing work by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Maurice Godelier and Jacques Derrida. By illuminating each position through the lens (...)
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