{"product_id":"of-relations-and-the-dead-four-societies-viewed-from-the-angle-of-their-exchanges-9781859730461","title":"Of Relations and the Dead: Four Societies Viewed from the Angle of Their Exchanges","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Cecile Barraud | Daniel De Coppet | Andre Iteanu\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural \u0026amp; Social\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExchanges are fundamental to human societies. The authors show that the study of exchanges not only serves as a key to understanding particular societies as totalities but also helps to frame a comparative mode of analysis expressed in terms of a hierarchy of values. Starting with a comparative analysis of the different vocabularies used when dealing with exchange, the authors go on to provide a detailed account of how each society's exchanges form a genuine value-oriented system. Their conclusions shed light on important issues in anthropology such as the difference between subject and object; the construction of the person in the matrix of social relations; and the contrast between 'socio-cosmic' systems and other societies which recognize a universal term of reference beyond their community.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46932020002967,"sku":"9781859730461","price":2631.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781859730461.webp?v=1771617970","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/of-relations-and-the-dead-four-societies-viewed-from-the-angle-of-their-exchanges-9781859730461","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}