Packet 9: Bonus 22
In a foreword added to this essay, Mary Douglas praised this essay for providing a basic requirement for modern fieldwork but admits its attempt to apply its ideas to social democracy are “very weak.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this essay, which argues that the practice of “total prestation” or “total services” leads everything in Polynesian societies to become something used for “balancing accounts.”
ANSWER: The Gift [or The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies; or Essai sur le don: forme et raison de l'échange dans les sociétés archaïques]
[10e] The Gift was written by this French anthropologist, who heavily influenced the structural ideas of Claude Lévi-Strauss and worked with his uncle Émile Durkheim.
ANSWER: Marcel Mauss
[10h] This student of Lévi-Strauss extended Mauss’ ideas to political power in works like Archaeology of Violence. He argued that societies like the Guayaki use torture and violence to prevent greater harms from state formation.
ANSWER: Pierre Clastres
<EC, Social Science> | NAFTA-Packet-9
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NYU A | The "C" Team | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |