The Question of the Gift: Essays Across DisciplinesMark Osteen Psychology Press, 2002 - 310 pages 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 poses new questions concerning the theory and practice of gift exchange. 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 innovative ways of confronting this universal phenomenon. |
Contents
A free gift makes no friends | 45 |
asymmetrical gift giving | 67 |
illiquid goods and empathetic | 85 |
85 | 100 |
Aristotles gift | 118 |
Adam Smith and the debt of gratitude | 132 |
Catullus and the gift of sentiment in republican Rome | 149 |
the art of squandering and | 172 |
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