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Gifts and Nationsreviewed by Margaret Mead - 1970This is a complex and significant book, concise, but
multi-level. It is based upon work done by Dr. Dillon for his
dissertation at Teachers College in the Department of Foundations
of Education, and it reflects happily upon the scope which
has been traditionally allowed at Teachers College to students of
wide-ranging skills and interests. The book is a study at three
levels, field work of a most unusual kind: the intimate study of
the responses of a French industrialist to American
technological advice, a critical use of the ideas of the French
anthropologist, Marcel Mauss, about gift exchange among
pre-literate peoples, and the development of a theory of the role
of reciprocity in the relationship between modern nations, France
and the United States. Its uniqueness lies in the combination of
using French anthropological theory to interpret French behavior,
as we move from an armchair French anthropologist's musings through
modern American style field work study of a particular situation,
to the level of international relations. The use... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Margaret Mead
The American Museum of Natural History, New York
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Title: Gifts and Nations
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