Reviews for The enigma of the gift

The average rating for The enigma of the gift based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-01-19 00:00:00 CARRIERE STEPHANE Figuring that most don't read my reviews of such isolated works as these, I'll save goodreads from the long summary. Godelier is a good reader of Mauss, but I'm not so sure he can fight the war he wants to fight on two fronts. He either needs to stick with and to develop Mauss, or to fight against Lacan and Levi-Strauss. As it stands, he kind of loses both battles. Still, this was much more lucid of a read, thank god.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-10-26 00:00:00 Delmer Sloan Interesting, but Godelier's habit of writing in incessantly cascading clauses was frustrating. I did appreciate that he decided Lévi-Strauss was incorrect about the exchange of women (as a more valuable good, but a good nonetheless) being the basis of society.