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...