Practice question · Estimate
Mauss published Essai sur le don, the essay that founded gift theory, in which year? Set the slider.
Estimate on a scale from 1880 to 1960.
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- Between the world wars.
- Three years after Malinowski’s Argonauts (1922).
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1925 (answers within ±6 count)
Why
1925: Mauss synthesized Malinowski’s fresh kula ethnography, Boas’s potlatch data, and Roman law into the century’s most influential essay on exchange.
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