Expectations of the Gift: Toward a Future-Oriented Taxonomy of Transactions
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Abstract People engage in transactions because they expect to bring about certain futures. This suggests replacing Marcel Mauss's three obligations of gift exchange—giving, taking, and returning—with the notion expectations. From this perspective, contingencies constitute exchange: gifts create futures that remain indeterminate; presuppose a social whole whose boundaries are unclear; visibly opaque persons. Reconsidering exchange these terms provides set analytical terms, like strong weak expectations, moral horizons value systems, opacity personhood, can be applied sharing commodity trade as well. constitutes dynamic expansive theory for analysis comparison case studies understands society shared project expecting future.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Social Analysis
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1558-5727', '0155-977X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2023.670104