But of all the explanations for why people give gifts, the one I find most convincing was offered in 1925 by a French anthropologist named Marcel Mauss. For example, along the northwest coast of ...
Why would people simply hand over something precious or valuable when they could use it themselves? To me as an anthropologist, this is an especially powerful question because giving gifts likely has ...
John Fetterolf, who’s been donating blood for more than 50 years, gave his 97th pint Saturday morning in the Masonic Lodge. “It’s one small thing you can do that helps a lot of people,” said Fetterolf ...