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Title: Of cabbages and kin: the value of an analytic distinction between gifts and commodities
Author/Creator: Goddard, Michael
Description: This article argues for the maintenance of the traditional anthropological analytic distinction between gifts and commodities, against a recent trend to refer to all objects as commodities when exchange is their socially relevant feature. It examines Marx's notions of alienation and commodity fetishism in the context of human praxis and suggests that rigorous, rather than impressionistic, use of these analytic concepts in anthropology can clarify a distinction between gifts and commodities in relation to praxis and intention, rather than exchange.
Relation: Critique of Anthropology: a Journal for the Critical Reconstruction of Anthropology Vol. 20, Issue 2, p. 137-151
Relation: http://coa.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/20/2/137
Date: 2000
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd.
Keyword(s): alienation; commodity fetishism; intersubjectivity; objectification; praxis
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/31835
Identifier: ISSN:0308-275X

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