by identifying the complex web of exchange and obligation involved in the act of giving, mauss called into question many of our social conventions and economic systems. as levi-strauss remarked, few have managed to read it without feeling the whole gamut of the emotions: the pounding heart, the throbbing head, the mind flooded with the imperious, though not yet definable, certainty of being present at a decisive event in the evolution of science.
"Una perspectiva única y original sobre la gratitud por los bienes recibidos en ceremonias primitivas como forma de mantener la cohesión social en las comunidades.Con ejemplos de diversas culturas primitivas "