{"product_id":"9781138271845","title":"The Gift and its Paradoxes : Beyond Mauss (Classical and Contemporary Social Theory)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBringing social theory and philosophy to bear on popular movies, novels, myths, and fairy tales, The Gift and its Paradoxes explores the ambiguity of the gift: it is at once both a relation and a thing, alienable and inalienable, present and poison. Challenging the nature of giving as reciprocal, the book engages critically with the work of Mauss and develops a new theory of the gift according to which the gift cannot be reduced to a model of exchange, but must instead entail a loss or sacrifice. Ultimately, the gift is examined in the book as the impossible occurrence of gratuitous giving.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49641763537144,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":162.52,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9781138271845-1.jpg?v=1783644776","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9781138271845","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}