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To salvage this concept, Claude Lévi-Strauss posited that it belonged to the "order of sighs" alone and not that "order of reality." For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this oft disputed concept advanced by turn-of-the-century anthropologists as the name of an energy that Polynesians believed flowed through all objects and actions. One thinker cited this concept as an explanation for gifts ultimately returning to their giver.
ANSWER: mana
[10m] The mana explanation for Polynesian gift-giving was advanced in The Gift, a long essay on practices such as potlach by this French anthropologist.
ANSWER: Marcel Mauss
[10h] Mauss generalized an explanation of mana from this Māori concept of the "spirit of the giver in the gift." This word names an open-access journal championing an ethnographic approach to anthropology that collapsed in a 2017 harassment scandal.
ANSWER: hau
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