Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Does the Gift (Still) Exist? 1
5. The Sites of the Gift
6. Three Forms of Social Bonding 23
7. Interpersonal Ties 26
8. When the State Supplants the Gift 51
9. The Gift Between Strangers 65
10. The Gift and Merchandise 79
11. The Gift in Liberal Society 92
12. From the Archaic to the Modern Gift
13. The Archaic Gift: Some Lessons in Ethnology 101
14. Classic Interpretations of the Archaic Gift 118
15. The Archaic Gift and the Modern Gift 129
16. The Passage to the Modern Gift 149
17. The Strange Loop of the Gift
18. Gift, Market, Disinterestedness 171
19. Sketch for a Model of the Gift Relationship 196
20. Conclusion: Behind Exchanges, the Gift 206
21. Notes 224
22. Bibliography 233
23. Index 247