Sistemi di dono-reciprocità nel sistema economico capitalista: utopia o coesistenza feconda? Il caso dell’Economia di Comunione nella libertà
This article analyzes the Economy of Communion in Freedom (EoC), an economic phenomenon that was born in 1991 in Brazil and is nowadays widespread worldwide , with some 860 companies informing their actions towards the primary objective to create a society without poverty, in order to achieve a mor...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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CLUEB
2014-04-01
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| Series: | EtnoAntropologia |
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| Online Access: | https://rivisteclueb.it/index.php/etnoantropologia/article/view/93 |
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| Summary: | This article analyzes the Economy of Communion in Freedom (EoC), an economic phenomenon that was born in 1991 in Brazil and is nowadays widespread worldwide , with some 860 companies informing their actions towards the primary objective to create a society without poverty, in order to achieve a more general aim: “make humankind one family”. Hypothesis of this article is that the EoC, due to his embeddedness in a particular cultural practice, inserts into capitalist system typical elements from a gift-reciprocity system, similar to the one observed by anthropologists in archaic and traditional societies, able to create “reciprocity” and “properly social bonds” beside the instrumental and powerfull relationships. To investigate this hypothesis the EoC is seen as a process, paying attention to the forms of exchange implemented, and as a sociological place focusing the analysis on the actions and relations system, targeting in particular three groups of actors: 1. entrepreneurs, 2. poors that are aid recipents, and 3. management committees that are centrally or locally responsible of the distribution of such aid. The research has been informed by data collected through an on-the-field observation period in Brazil, with qualitative techniques and tools (documents and interviews) and having as theoretical perspective the Paradigm of gift of the M.A.U.S.S. (Mouvement Anti-utilitariste dans les Sciences Sociales).
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| ISSN: | 2284-0176 |