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Review title: Familiar naive academic Marxism
Product review: This is the familiar naive academic's reduction of culture to the supposed "evils of capitalism," thus its reference to Ezra Pound, a Communist dupe, and Walt Whitman, a Romantic socialist. Anyone who reads Marcel Mauss' classic The Gift: the form and reason for exchange in archaic societies (London: Routledge 1922)learns much more about the grounding of gift-giving in social structure; who reads Paul Radin's classic Trickster: a study in American Indian mythology (New York: Schocken 1956) learns more about the bases of gift giving in culture; and who reads Parsons, Fox, and Lidz' "The Gift of Life and its reciprocation" (Social Research 39,3: 367-415) learns more about the status of gift symbolization in general theory.
