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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.