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The Question of the Gift: Essays Across Disciplines (Routledge Studies in Anthropology)
Mark Osteen
Hardcover. Routledge 2006-03.
ISBN 9780415282772
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Publisher description
The Question of the Gift is the first collection of new interdisciplinary
essays on the gift. Bringing together scholars from a variety of fields,
including anthropology, literary criticism, economics, philosophy and classics,
it provides new paradigms and pose new questions concerning the theory and
practice of gift exchange. In a culture awash with the rhetoric of
self-interest, understanding the gift is more essential than ever. The
questions of the gift raised in this collection address essential issues in
social life: How do non-commercial exchanges form and solidify communities? How
do humans and objects interact outside of consumerism? What are the
relationships between gifts and commodities? To what degree are artworks gifts?
Is a truly free gift possible, or even desirable? In addressing these
questions, contributors not only challenge the conventions of their fields, but
also combine ideas and methods from both the social sciences and humanities to
forge an innovative way of tackling this universal phenomenon. This book brings together scholars from a variety of fields, including
anthropology, literary criticism, economic, philosophy and classics. It
provides new paradigms and poses new questions about the theory and practice of
gift exchange.
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