The exchange of words and the exchange of things: politics and language in the Brazilian Congress
Since Lévi-Strauss, anthropologists have been trained to see the exchange relationship identified by Mauss in The Gift as a form of communication. Linguistics, reasoned Lévi-Strauss, holds the key to our understanding of society. This paper develops this anthropological interest in language by pursu...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
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| Online Access: | http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-93132006000200005&lng=en&tlng=en |