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Market Transactions, Ritual Exchange, Personal Relationships. Economie Ethnography after the Great Divide What . tools are available to the ethnographer to describe transactions? To answer this question, the author draws upon the1 results of anthropology, rid of any forms of the Great Divide between the West and the rest of the world. She uses a ethnographic examples to formulate four analytical; propositions: 1. differentiating between the nature of the relationships and the nature of the goods exchanged, it is possible to analyse the uses of money in personal relationships. 2. By distinguishing ; the types of transaction according to the gap between transfer of goods and its counterpart, it is possible to clarify the opposition between transactions without any gap (immediate reciprocity), transactions with an infinite gap (pure gift or simple transfer) and transactions : with a temporal , gap (Maussian gift or delayed reciprocity). 3.: By giving access to indigenous interpretations, ethnography allows us to analyse misunderstandings or conflicts of interpretation at the core of transactions. 4. The distinction between market transactions and i personal relationships may be considered a result of mental operations of These operations are carried out not only by observers, but also by the partners in the transaction. In every instance, the ethnographer observes the ritual forms of exchange, which influence both: indigenous' and^ scientific interpretations.

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