Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Does the Gift Still Exist? -- PART ONE: THE SITES OF THE GIFT -- 1 Three Forms of Social Bonding -- 2 Interpersonal Ties -- 3 When the State Supplants the Gift -- 4 The Gift between Strangers -- 5 The Gift and Merchandise -- 6 The Gift in Liberal Society -- PART TWO: FROM THE ARCHAIC TO THE MODERN GIFT -- 7 The Archaic Gift: Some Lessons in Ethnology -- 8 Classic Interpretations of the Archaic Gift -- 9 The Archaic Gift and the Modern Gift -- 10 The Passage to the Modern Gift -- PART THREE: THE STRANGE LOOP OF THE GIFT -- 11 Gift, Market, Disinterestedness -- 12 Sketch for a Model of the Gift Relationship -- 13 Conclusion: Behind Exchanges, the Gift -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.