ANT378H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Marcel Mauss, Bsc Young Boys, Temporalities
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Two use-values each consisting of a particular number, unit, and utility are equated so far as they have the same exchange-value (pg 1) Wants to use substitution instead of reciprocity as a conceptual experiment. He wants to think a little differently than maussian approach (agrees with mauss on personhood). Substitution as replacement and replenishment model non- exchange realm goes away from the commodification. Ko(cid:272)kel(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:859)s (cid:448)ie(cid:449) is si(cid:373)ilar to godelier(cid:859)s u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)ding of the driving force behind obligation being the substitution of person/humans not a spirit of the thing (page 100). A rule of right is connected to the ownership of certain objects. Original ownership is never cancelled out it supersedes that alienable right of possession by the receiver. Godelier does(cid:374)(cid:859)t use su(cid:271)stitutio(cid:374) as a (cid:373)ajor (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)ept. He i(cid:374)(cid:448)ests i(cid:374) wei(cid:374)er(cid:859)s thesis that (cid:374)ot all objects are put into circulation and attempts to explain why.
