Negotiating the Gift. Pre-Modern Figurations of Exchange 3525351860

Exchange, gifting, and sacrificing: Premodern Indian perspectives 9783948791735, 9783948791742, 3948791740

In both the Vedic and Classical periods there was a special elite of people called Brahmins. Roughly speaking, one could

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A Spiritual Economy: Gift Exchange in the Letters of Paul of Tarsus 9780300225143

Thomas Blanton sheds light on the philosophy surrounding gift giving in Paul’s letters and on modern theories of gift ex

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Strategic Affection?: Gift Exchange in Seventeenth-Century Holland 9789048503438

In the series Solidarity and Identitya highly readable study of gift-giving in seventeenth- century Holland across the s

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Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange 2018935776, 9780198778585

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Gift Exchange: The Transnational History of a Political Idea 1108453481, 9781108453486

Since Marcel Mauss published his foundational essay The Gift in 1925, many anthropologists and specialists of internatio

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Gift Exchange: The Transnational History of a Political Idea 9781108570497, 9781108489690, 2018042538, 9781108453486

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The gift of Language

First published in 1942, under the title "The Gift of Tongues".

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Princesses Mary and Elizabeth Tudor and the Gift Book Exchange 9781641893558

This study examines the gift book practices of Elizabeth and Mary Tudor, both queens of England; it begins with pre-acce

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World of the Gift 9780773567320

In an age dominated by consumerism and government agencies many people believe that generosity and altruism either no lo

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A Spiritual Economy: Gift Exchange in the Letters of Paul of Tarsus [1 ed.] 0300220405, 9780300220407

Thomas Blanton sheds light on the philosophy surrounding gift giving in Paul’s letters and on modern theories of gift ex

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