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Since its first publication in English in 1954, The Gift , Marcel Mauss's groundbreaking study of the relation between forms of exchange and social structure, has been acclaimed as a classic among anthropology texts.

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During this research into the extension of contractual gifts, it seemed for a long time as if potlatch proper did not exist in Polynesia.
 

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