Expectations of the Gift: Toward a Future-Oriented Taxonomy of Transactions

IF 1 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Social Analysis Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.3167/sa.2023.670104

Guido Sprenger, A. J. Pickles, Ilana Gershon, J. Robbins, Rebecca Bryant, M. Strathern

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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 of expectations. From this perspective, three contingencies constitute gift exchange: gifts create futures that remain indeterminate; they presuppose a social whole whose boundaries are unclear; and they visibly constitute opaque persons. Reconsidering gift exchange in these terms provides a set of analytical terms, like strong and weak expectations, moral horizons of value systems, and the opacity of personhood, that can be applied to sharing and commodity trade as well. This constitutes a dynamic and expansive theory for the analysis and comparison of case studies that understands society as a shared project of expecting the future.

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对赠与的期望:走向面向未来的交易分类

人们从事交易是因为他们期望带来某种未来。这建议用期望的概念取代Marcel Mauss的礼物交换的三种义务——给予、接受和回报。从这个角度来看，礼物交换有三种偶然性:礼物创造了不确定的未来;它们预设了一个界限不清的社会整体;他们显然是不透明的人。从这些方面重新考虑礼物交换提供了一套分析术语，如强烈和微弱的期望，价值体系的道德视野，以及人格的不透明性，这些也可以应用于分享和商品贸易。这构成了一个动态的和广泛的理论，用于分析和比较案例研究，将社会理解为期望未来的共同项目。

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Social Analysis ANTHROPOLOGY-

CiteScore

2.20

自引率

7.10%

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审稿时长

16 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Analysis is an international peer-reviewed journal devoted to exploring the analytical potentials of anthropological research. It encourages contributions grounded in original empirical research that critically probe established paradigms of social and cultural analysis. The journal expresses the best that anthropology has to offer by exploring in original ways the relationship between ethnographic materials and theoretical insight. By forging creative and critical engagements with cultural, political, and social processes, it also opens new avenues of communication between anthropology and the humanities as well as other social sciences. The journal publishes four issues per year, including regular Special Issues on particular themes. The Editors welcome individual articles that focus on diverse topics and regions, reflect varied theoretical approaches and methods, and aim to appeal widely within anthropology and beyond. Proposals for Special Issues are selected by the Editorial Board through an annual competitive call.