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Aafke E. Komter, Social Solidarity and the Gift.

Publication: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
Publication Date: 01-AUG-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Aafke E. Komter, Social Solidarity and the Gift.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
AAFKE E. KOMTER, Social Solidarity and the Gift. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, xi + 224 p.

This book is an excellent review of the latest literature on solidarity and on gift giving, bringing together anthropological and sociological approaches to one of the fundamental projects of both disciplines. That project, as I see it, is to understand how social units stay united--and the forces that drive them apart.

At first reading, the book is a bit frustrating, since all nine chapters were originally published separately or, in the case of the final two chapters, given as a presentation when the author was appointed in 2003 to the Chair of Social Solidarity at Utrecht University. Several...

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