Author(s)

Rao Rui ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ College of Ethnology and Sociology, Hubei Minzu University, Enshi, Hubei 445000, China

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ABSTRACT

This article analyzes the flow of gifts from the perspective of memory; analyzes the gift exchange practices in ethnology and anthropology from another perspective, and explores the impact of gift exchange practices in interpersonal communication on group memory. This article combines the existing research theories on memory and borrows related concepts in the "memory" theory to interpret the practice of gift exchange, thus pointing out that gift exchange is not only a reciprocal purpose of social groups, but also a kind of awakening society. The medium of inter-group memory, in order to further understand the practice of gift exchange between people through cultural memory.

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Rao Rui. From Gift Flow to Social Memory: Cultural Mechanism in the Interpersonal Networks. Journal of Sociology and Ethnology (2021) 3: 18-21. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jsoce.2021.030704.

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