Hau is a notion made popular by the French anthropologist Marcel Mauss in his 1925 book The Gift.
[1] Surveying the practice of gifting, he came to the conclusion that it involved belief in a force binding the receiver and giver.
The term 'Hau', used by Māori, became a paradigmatic example for such a view.
], Mauss relied on limited sources but his analysis has been expanded and refined.
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