Hann, Chris - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 207-223). 2006
Economic anthropology is a contested area of interdisciplinary research. Although some practitioners define the task as … that began with the total prestation and ends in the modern world, dominated by contracts and markets. Only in this modern … world do we arguably have the possibility of altruism, understood as disinterested giving. After reviewing some of the more …
