Comment Alvi, A. & Werth, L. ‘Generosity as Ethics: The Double Transaction in Marcel Mauss’s The Gift’
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: ‘Generosity as Ethics’ is an ambitious article that has the capacity to speak to fundamental understandings of an enduring anthropological concept. The argument is forceful, clear, and well-related to a discussion of cosmology and marriage in the authors’ research site. The anthropology of gifting has pored over the ethics of exchange for decades. However, it is stimulating to read a new article on a perennial topic, which claims to say something original. I think that the issues discussed here are the sort of thing that anthropologists should be talking about. For that reason, I am glad that the article is published. But I also think that the article requires a fuller demonstration of the basis and novel significance of the argument.
Source: Apollo (University of Cambridge)
DOI: 10.17863/cam.115742
Author: Sanchez, Andrew
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6887943130
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