Revue du MAUSS No 44 Consommer, donner, s’adonner

New forms of alternative consumerism, more efficient, showing increasing solidarism and sharing, are developing, albeit with some ambiguity about their status as they appear to be free but at the same time seem to be destroying some aspects of long-standing solidarity. Can we really give up our consumerist habits without plunging into some ascetism ?… Some thirty French academics discuss the ralationship between consumerism and the spirit of the gift (in the sense of French anthropologist Marcel Mauss) (some 20 articles, all in French).