Reciprocity in Human Societies From Ancient Times to the Modern Welfare State /

• Main Authors: Kujala, Antti (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Danielsbacka, Mirkka (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Ethnology.; Social sciences-Philosophy.; Welfare state.; Biological psychology.; Sociology.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Social Anthropology.; Social Theory.; Politics of the Welfare State.; Biological Psychology.; Sociological Theory.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.

Presenting new insights into reciprocity, this book combines Marcel Mauss's well-known gift theory with Barrington Moore's idea of mutual obligations linking rulers and the ruled. Teasing out the interrelatedness of these approaches, Reciprocity in Human Societies suggests that evolutionar...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Inca and Maya Reciprocity
• 3. The Indian Gift and Village Servants
• 4. Moral Obligations in Early Modern Japan
• 5. Gift Exchange and Reciprocity in the Nordic Countries
• 6. Reciprocity in the French Army in the First World War and in the Finnish Army in 1941-44
• 7. The Modern Welfare State
• 8. Inequality in the United States and Other Industrialized Countries
• 9. Reciprocity Past and Present.