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- 1 2 GIVE IT AWAY By Anthropologist David Graeber, published at www.freewords.org
- ↑ La revue du M.A.U.S.S.
- ↑ Short History of Economical Anthropology by Chris Hann published at www.thememorybanck.co.uk
- ↑ À propos du M.A.U.S.S.
- ↑ Interview with Alain Caillé at www.revue-sociologique.org
- ↑ Michèle Richman. 2002. The French Sociological Revolution from Montaigne to Mauss. SubStance. Vol. 31, No. 1, Issue 97: Special Issue: The American Production of French Theory (2002), pp. 27-35
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