By identifying the complex web of exchange and obligation involved in the actof giving Mauss called into question many of our social conventions andeconomic sys... » 

By identifying the complex web of exchange and obligation involved in the actof giving Mauss called into question many of our social conventions andeconomic systems. As LeviStrauss remarked Few have managed to read itwithout feeling the whole gamut of the emotions the pounding heart thethrobbing head the mind flooded with the imperious though not yet definablecertainty of being present at a decisive event in the evolution of science. «