Renata de Castro Menezes holds a degree in History, a master's degree and a PhD in Social Anthropology (UFRJ). She is a full professor at the Department of Anthropology of the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPQ) and the Research Support Foundation of the State of Rio de Janeiro (Faperj).

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The relevance of Marcel Mauss's essay on gift

  • Marcos P. D. Lanna
  • Renata de Castro Menezes

  • moderator Marcelo Camurça

For Mauss, the gift encompasses innumerable phenomena, but, more than a phenomenon, he considers it a relationship. They are goods, words, people, visits, parties, music, gestures, violence, signs, among other significant realities, which may or may not circulate as commodities, from which, once given, emanate some forms of retribution; they are "obligations," says Mauss.