الهدية بين الرابطة الاجتماعية و المنفعة الاقتصادية

Abstract EN

In this article, we have tried to analyze the phenomenon of exchange, choosing for example the gift.

It is a question of whether the gift constitutes a consolidating factor of the social bond or if, on the other hand, it is only a means to establish relations that can enable the realization of interests.

properly material.

That said, such an approach required the study of certain elements relating to the gift: its definition, the determination of its nature, its functions.

We also studied opportunities or gifts and gifts are exchanged between individuals.

In addition, we try to highlight the different exchange relationships that make the gift either a generous gesture or a calculated gesture, aimed above all at the realization of material or symbolic unacknowledged interest.

Here, it is a question of seeking the reasons and reasons which determine this type of relationship.

Finally, the gift remains, by its economic, social and cultural dimensions, a global fact, as rightly pointed out by the father of the French ethnology, Marcel Mauss