La reciprocidad y el don no son la misma cosa

  • Ricardo Gabriel Abduca Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA
Keywords: Reciprocity, Gift, Economic anthropology, Political economy, Theory

Abstract

The aim of this text is to show how the notion of ‘reciprocity’, although have been considered a synonymous of gift exchange, veils different social situations. A brief survey of the history of the use of the word shows how ‘reciprocity’, from Durkheim to Polanyi, seems as a palimpsest of various notions. Although, he essays a defense of a concept of ‘gift’ related to the Maussian texts, and closer to some issues of recent ethnography and social theory. He distinguishes two types of gifts paths: closed, where final consumption goods circulates, and open ones, where we find not-consumption goods, which resume the whole of social relationship.

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Author Biography

Ricardo Gabriel Abduca, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA
Docente del Departamento de Ciencias Antropológicas e integrante del Programa de Extensión en Comunidades Indígenas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA. Candidato doctoral de la École Doctorale “Connaissance et culture”, Université de Paris X
How to Cite
Abduca, R. G. (1). La reciprocidad y el don no son la misma cosa. Cuadernos De antropología Social, (26). https://doi.org/10.34096/cas.i26.4369