#Marcel Mauss pdf

[protoslacker]

Work

I work in the garden center of a big-box hardware store.

There is much that is disastrous to life on Earth about modern business. In The focus is on "value creation," of course, so it's easy to turn a blind eye to the enormous production of waste which is fundamental to the enterprise. And sometimes customers can be quite difficult and inconsiderate.

So I wonder why I work so very hard and take some satisfaction in it?

Yes I work the job for money. At root I don't' think that money is the is the only answer.

There is something important and hopeful in the relationships between customers and store clerks: Store clerks are people we tell our needs and ideas to. And store clerk listen in a nonjudgmental way and try to help meet those needs and facilitate the ideas.

Marcel Mauss wrote an influential essay in 1925, the title in English is The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies. It is available online and the Wikipedia article offers a link to a PDF of the 1990 edition translated by W. D. Halls.

A thumbnail sketch of the essay has Mauss pointing to a difference in how modern societies and archaic societies imagine the gift. For us, perhaps we view gifts as tokens of affection which don't' demand a a gift in return. But for people in times past the whole point of gift was to build solidarity, so reciprocity was essential.

It's a stretch, or perhaps a vestige, but there's something like building solidarity that makes my work meaningful.

There's really a great deal of good thinking along these lines that I want know more about. Keith Hart's The Memory Bank probably introduced me to Mauss. The Website is very much worth exploring.

This morning before work I played a video of Louis Armstong singing What a Wonderful world. Famously the president of Armstrong's record label tried hard to torpedo the song. In the story of how Armstrong came to record the song, there's an element of the archaic notion of a gift. And the song is about building solidarity.

Our best hope is to imagine another world together.

[ifnotfor-you]

"Parece-me absolutamente procedente a hipótese de Olgária Matos quando supõe uma origem comum, no persa antigo, para imagem e magia. Definida como 'instância intermediária entre o sensível e o inteligível', a imagem é a 'imaterialidade material' (1991:16). O termo francês magie vem do grego mageia (de magos, mage): arte de produzir efeitos maravilhosos pelo emprego de meios sobrenaturais e, particularmente, pela intervenção de demônios. Ao contrário da religião – que tende à metafísica e às abstrações intelectuais – a magia é um 'tesouro das idéias'; como afirmou Marcel Mauss (2003), a magia apaixona-se pelo concreto e dedica-se a conhecer a natureza".

CAIUBY NOVAES, Sylvia. Imagem, magia e imaginação: desafios ao texto antropológico. Mana, v. 14, n. 2, p. 455-475, 2008. Disponível em: http://www.scielo.br/pdf/mana/v14n2/a07v14n2.pdf. Acesso em: 26 mar. 2023.

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Marcel Mauss - Sosyoloji ve Antropoloji PDF indir

Marcel Mauss – Sosyoloji ve Antropoloji PDF indir

Sosyoloji ve Antropoloji isimli ve Yazarı Marcel Mauss olan kitabın pdf dosyasını paylaşma amacımız kitabın tanıtımını yapmaktır. Kitabın tanıtım halini buradan kontrol ederek kesinlikle orjinalini alıp daha iyi bir sonuca varmış olursunuz. Kitap olarak çözmenin PDF olarak çözmekten daha verimli olduğu tespit edilmiştir.

Paylaşımda bulunduğumuz Sosyoloji ve Antropoloji bu kitabın orjinalinin…

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3.Consumo VS Consumismo

Cuando pensamos en la palabra consumo pensamos en cosas relacionadas con consumir alimentos o algo parecido, ciertamente no es tan alejada la idea que tenemos de esto, no es tan exacta debido a que el consumo consiste en consumir o gastar bienes, un producto o algún servicio para cumplir ciertas necesidades primarias o secundarias de la vida cotidiana. La mayoría de veces y yo me incluyo antes de conocer estos términos pensábamos que tanto el consumo y el consumismo parecían ser algún tipo de sinónimo cuando en realidad son cosas muy diferentes, aunque se desempeñen en el mismo contexto.

Teniendo en cuenta que el consumo es consumir algo que necesitamos para la vida cotidiana, el consumismo parte de esto, pero con la gran diferencia que es de una manera muy descontrolada, los deseos humanos y las necesidades se mezclan de una manera muy elevada hasta llegar a consumir cosas que realmente no necesitas para nada y solo lo quieres por puro deseo, a esto se le conoce como consumismo.

Para entender un poco más a continuación se mostrarán algunas definiciones de expertos además de una representación gráfica de lo que es el consumismo.

Según Luis Enrique Alonso (2007), el consumo es un hecho social total –en la clásica acepción del concepto de Marcel Mauss–, pues es una realidad objetiva y material pero es, a la vez, e indisolublemente, una producción simbólica que depende de los sentidos y valores que los grupos sociales le dan a los objetos y a las actividades de consumo.

Alonso Benito, L. (2020). CONSUMISMO Y SOCIEDAD. Retrieved 14 February 2020, from https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/181/18126057019.pdf

 Bruno Ferrari García de Alba (2012) afirma:

El consumidor constituye un agente primordial de la economía, pues participa y es elemento clave en el ciclo económico, al mismo tiempo que, a través de sus decisiones, define la etapa final de los procesos productivos. A su vez, estos patrones de consumo reflejan la solidez y la dinámica de la economía e impulsan nuevos mercados y nuevos procesos productivos, económicos y sociales.(pág. 3)

Alba, B. F. (2012). BIENESTAR Y CONSUMO. PROFECO, 3,4. Recuperado el 26 de Marzo de 2016, de http://www.consumidor.gob.mx/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Resumen-Ejecutivo.pdf

Adjuntando este sencillo pero entendible cuadro sinóptico podremos tomar en cuenta lo que ocasiona el consumismo no solo en nosotros como consumidores sino en todo el proceso de obtención de materiales además de abarcar en temas de comercio. Puede que sea algo confuso de entender de primeras, pero si lo tomamos de una vista más objetiva y poniéndonos en el lugar de un consumidor viendo si en realidad compramos las cosas que necesitamos llegamos a la conclusión si practicamos un consumo o consumismo.

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Reading Group: Mauss on Gift Exchange

Reading Group: Mauss on Gift Exchange

READING GROUP:

PCPN is back this summer with, GIFT // DEBT // DEATH. Don’t miss our meetings most Tuesday evenings (7:00pm) at the Bloomfield Crazy Mocha. (NOTE: TIME MOVED FROM 8:00 TO 7:00)

This week:

06/04 – Marcel Mauss, “The Exchange of Gifts and the Obligation to Reciprocate (Polynesia)” in The Gift

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

Please bring either a digital or hard copy of the…

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California Cultures: A Monograph Series

Description:

California Cultures: A Monograph Series (CCMS) is an online monograph series for scholarship, essays and other creative works about the peoples and cultures of the California region. We welcome the presentation of solid research and writing in standard monograph form, as well as the publication of formats that would be difficult or prohibitively expensive in the print format, such as photographic essays.

Most of the monographs in this series will be available online in two digital formats: iBooks, and Adobe PDF. CCMS will publish monographs on an irregular schedule, as they become available, however our goal is to publish at least three volumes per year.  We have amazing works in the pipeline.

Monographs available so far:

San Francisco’s Queer Nation: LGBT Visibility in the Age of AIDS. 
By Rick Gerharter

ABSTRACT:  Queer Nation was a grassroots movement started in New York City in March 1990 by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activists outraged by increased anti-gay and lesbian street violence and by the continuing prejudice in the media. Queer Nation chapters quickly appeared in many major cities throughout the United States, and by July 1990 a San Francisco chapter was publicly established. Rick Gerharter had come to San Francisco in 1977 to escape Minnesota winters and meet gay progressives. The Queer Nation and ACT-UP members he met respected his journalism and allowed him to contribute to the movement. As a member of the gay community and as a photo documentarian, Gerharter used his photographs to spread the word about the activism and message of these groups. News outlets, such as the Bay Area Reporter, often printed Gerharter’s photographs of the direct actions conducted by Queer Nation. Gerharter’s photographs captured a flashpoint in the global gay movement for equality and dignity, which resulted in a turning point on issues of gay rights, public perceptions, and the reclamation of the word “queer.” Gerharter’s photographs in this monograph comprise a body of work about Queer Nation and AIDS activism in the San Francisco Bay Area that are artistically captivating as well as historically important.

California on the Eve of the Gold Rush: The Sojourn of Captain LaPlace in 1839. By Colin Dyer

ABSTRACT:  In 1839, just nine years before the Gold Rush, French captain Cyrille Laplace visited California for a month with one ship, l’Artémise, and some 460 men. In the “village” of San Francisco he saw few signs of habitation or cultivation, and noted that there were no ships in the harbor, which he considered could be the best in the world. The men Laplace encountered here seemed to be generally unkempt and lazy, but many of the women were graceful and pretty. The Commandant of the Presidio was absent when he called. In Santa Cruz he was again disappointed to see ruins and neglect, although the priest of the former mission entertained him very kindly. Here again Laplace noted the people were poor and untidy. However, Monterey appeared to him to be a pretty town surrounded by plantations of fruit trees, cultivated fields and lush pastures. He was welcomed by several California residents, and met Governor-General Alvarado who later came aboard l’Artémise. During this encounter Alvarado suffered an angina attack, and was cared for by the ship’s surgeon. Many people Laplace met believed that the invasion of California, as threatened by the Americans, would be a great advantage for this country.

Reciprocity & Hupa Woodpeckers. By Timothy Jordan

ABSTRACT:  For the Hupa people of northwest California, reciprocity and acts of exchange are the foundation of their spiritual relationship with woodpeckers. This article examines how woodpeckers are sacred animals for the Hupa people, and how conscious acts of reciprocity directly influence the tribe’s relationship with these birds. Through textual analysis of more than one hundred years of ethnographic and linguistic records the woodpecker serves as the entry point for discussion regarding traditional Hupa culture. Through examination of this literature it becomes possible to see how the woodpecker influences traditional concepts of spiritualism, wealth, and ceremonialism. Analysis is guided by Marcel Mauss’ The Gift, which asserts relationships are created and maintained through regular acts of gift-exchange. This work examines how reciprocal transaction cycles integrate woodpeckers into the tribe’s spiritual practices and perpetuate the relationship with the birds over generations. This work presents a model for future species-specific studies and complements an already rich body of literature about Hupa culture by describing the traits of their most important spiritual animal.

Where The Trails Return: Cultural Influences on Hupa History. By Brian Gleeson

ABSTRACT:  The history of the Hupa in northwestern California after the California Gold Rush in 1848 includes many struggles and wars, of which the Treaty of 1864 was a climax.  This study uses an ethnohistorical approach to examine how culture guided Hupa responses during this era, and influenced the cause, course, and outcome of events.  The cultural themes of the homeland and legal systems of conflict resolution played a key role in Hupa strategies and actions.  The Hupa collectively countered the invasion of settlers in their homeland, and engaged in complex power struggles with the United States Government.  The focal motivation of Hupa efforts was in ensuring the continued possession of their homeland, which was executed through Hupa systems of law and conflict resolution.  The Hupa were successful in their struggle, as the Treaty of 1864 established a reservation encompassing a vast amount of their aboriginal territory, which has remained a foundation for the Hupa to this day.