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Tonga, the South Pacific island kingdom located east of Fiji and south of Samoa, is one of the world's few remaining constitutional monarchies. Although Tonga has long been linked to the world system through markets and political relationships, in the last few decades emerging regional and global structures have had particularly intense and transformative effects. Today, because of greatly increased labour migration, people, money, and resources are in constant circulation among Tonga, New Zealand, Australia, and the United States. In Persistence of the Gift, Evans provides a detailed ethnographic and historical analysis of how, in spite of superficial appearances to the contrary, traditional Tongan values continue to play key roles in the way that Tongans make their way in the modern world.
Ceremonial exchange --- Gift exchange --- Exchange --- Rites and ceremonies --- Ha'ano Island (Tonga) --- Haaono (Tonga) --- Economic conditions. --- Social life and customs.
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This book is a history of European interpretations of the gift from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Reciprocal gift exchange, pervasive in traditional European society, disappeared from the discourse of nineteenth-century social theory only to return as a major theme in twentieth-century anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy and literary studies. Modern anthropologists encountered gift exchange in Oceania and the Pacific Northwest and returned the idea to European social thought; Marcel Mauss synthesized their insights with his own readings from remote times and places in his famous 1925 essay on the gift, the starting-point for subsequent discussion. The Return of the Gift demonstrates how European intellectual history can gain fresh significance from global contexts.
Anthropology --- Ceremonial exchange --- Gifts --- Gift exchange --- Exchange --- Rites and ceremonies --- Donations --- Presents --- Generosity --- Manners and customs --- Free material --- Philosophy --- History --- Ceremonial exchange. --- History. --- Philosophy. --- Arts and Humanities
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new English-language translations of his works in eight accessible volumes. Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, this engaging collection restores Seneca-whose works have been highly praised by modern authors from Desiderius Erasmus to Ralph Waldo Emerson-to his rightful place among the classical writers most widely studied in the humanities. On Benefits, written between 56 and 64 CE, is a treatise addressed to Seneca's close friend Aebutius Liberalis. The longest of Seneca's works dealing with a single subject-how to give and receive benefits and how to express gratitude appropriately-On Benefits is the only complete work on what we now call "gift exchange" to survive from antiquity. Benefits were of great personal significance to Seneca, who remarked in one of his later letters that philosophy teaches, above all else, to owe and repay benefits well.
Ceremonial exchange --- Conduct of life --- Ethics, Ancient. --- Ancient ethics --- Gift exchange --- Exchange --- Rites and ceremonies --- seneca, ancient rome, antiquity, stoicism, philosophy, diplomacy, politics, nero, aebutius liberalis, benefits, gifts, charity, reciprocity, gratitude, thankfulness, receiving, giving, gift exchange, ceremony, ethics, morality, society, community, nonfiction, favor, kindness, helping others, de beneficiis, culture, solidarity, elite, class, wealth.
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Les ressources naturelles diminuent et trop de gens sont touchés par la crise. Il est temps de réagir. L’économie de partage est peut-être la solution. Actuellement, de plus en plus de personnes prêtent, échangent ou donnent. Ce guide vous propose de faire le tour de toutes les initiatives qui existent actuellement. Il donne aussi la parole à ceux qui les ont testées. Nous espérons que ce guide vous inspirera, tout en n’oubliant jamais que, si l’économie collaborative est positive pour l’environnement et les finances, elle n’en reste pas moins une façon de vivre conviviale.
Ceremonial exchange --- Ceremoniële ruil --- Contre-don --- Countertrade --- Don -- Anthropologie --- Don cérémoniel --- Don et contre-don --- Don rituel --- Echange (Economie) --- Echange social --- Echanges compensés --- Exchange --- Gift exchange --- Ruil (Economie) --- Social exchange --- Sociale ruil --- Échange cérémoniel --- Échange rituel
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'The Poison in the Gift' is a detailed ethnography of gift-giving in a North Indian village that powerfully demonstrates a new theoretical interpretation of caste. Introducing the concept of 'ritual centrality', Raheja shows that the position of the dominant landholding caste in the village is grounded in a central-peripheral configuration of castes rather than a hierarchical ordering. She advances a view of caste as semiotically constituted of contextually shifting sets of meanings, rather than one overarching ideological feature. This new understanding undermines the controversial interpretation advanced by Louis Dumont in his 1966 book, 'Homo Hierarchicus', in which he proposed a disjunction between the ideology of hierarchy based on the "purity" of the Brahman priest and the "temporal power" of the dominant caste or the king.
Brahmans --- Caste --- Ceremonial exchange --- Gujars --- Kinship --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Pahansu (India) --- Social life and customs. --- Ethnology --- Clans --- Consanguinity --- Families --- Kin recognition --- Gujjars --- Gurjara --- Van Gujjars --- Gift exchange --- Exchange --- Rites and ceremonies --- Manners and customs --- Brahmins --- Hindus
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Since Marcel Mauss published his foundational essay The Gift in 1925, many anthropologists and specialists of international relations have seen in the exchange of gifts, debts, loans, concessions or reparations the sources of international solidarity and international law. Still, Mauss's reflections were deeply tied to the context of interwar Europe and the French colonial expansion. Their normative dimension has been profoundly questioned after the age of decolonization. A century after Mauss, we may ask: what is the relevance of his ideas on gift exchanges and international solidarity? By tracing how Mauss's theoretical and normative ideas inspired prominent thinkers and government officials in France and Algeria, from Pierre Bourdieu to Mohammed Bedjaoui, Grégoire Mallard adds a building block to our comprehension of the role that anthropology, international law, and economics have played in shaping international economic governance from the age of European colonization to the latest European debt crisis. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Gifts --- Diplomatic gifts. --- Diplomacy --- Diplomatic and consular service --- Donations --- Presents --- Generosity --- Manners and customs --- Free material --- Political aspects. --- Mauss, Marcel, --- Chartered Companies --- Gift Exchange --- Global Governance --- Decolonization --- International Law
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This study considers the nature of gift-giving in early-modern England - looking at what gifts were, how they were offered and received, and what did they mean politically under the different monarchs of the 16th and 17th centuries.
History of civilization --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Gifts --- Ceremonial exchange --- Cadeaux --- Echange cérémoniel --- History --- Histoire --- Gift exchange --- Exchange --- Rites and ceremonies --- Donations --- Presents --- Generosity --- Manners and customs --- Free material --- Echange cérémoniel --- History. --- 1500-1699 --- Storbritannien. --- England. --- Angleterre --- Anglii͡ --- Anglija --- Engeland --- Inghilterra --- Inglaterra
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Animus donandi --- Anthropologie économique --- Ceremonial exchange --- Ceremoniële ruil --- Contre-don --- Dispositions à titre gratuit --- Don -- Anthropologie --- Don cérémoniel --- Don et contre-don --- Don rituel --- Donations --- Donations entre vifs --- Dons --- Economic anthropology --- Economische antropologie --- Gift exchange --- Giften --- Gifts --- Intention libéralei651 --- Libéralités --- Libéralités (Droit civil) --- Libéralités entre vifs --- Presents --- Schenkingen --- Échange cérémoniel --- Échange rituel --- Mauss, Marcel
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Now a widely cited classic, this innovative book is the first comprehensive synthesis of economic, political, and cultural theories of value. David Graeber reexamines a century of anthropological thought about value and exchange, in large measure to find a way out of ongoing quandaries in current social theory, which have become critical at the present moment of ideological collapse in the face of Neoliberalism. Rooted in an engaged, dynamic realism, Graeber argues that projects of cultural comparison are in a sense necessarily revolutionary projects: He attempts to synthesize the best insights of Karl Marx and Marcel Mauss, arguing that these figures represent two extreme, but ultimately complementary, possibilities in the shape such a project might take. Graeber breathes new life into the classic anthropological texts on exchange, value, and economy. He rethinks the cases of Iroquois wampum, Pacific kula exchanges, and the Kwakiutl potlatch within the flow of world historical processes, and recasts value as a model of human meaning-making, which far exceeds rationalist/reductive economist paradigms.
Values. --- Anthropology --- Social values. --- Ceremonial exchange. --- Valeurs (Philosophie) --- Anthropologie --- Valeurs sociales --- Echange cérémoniel --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie --- Values --- Social Values --- Ceremonial exchange --- Philosophy --- #SBIB:39A3 --- Antropologie: geschiedenis, theorie, wetenschap (incl. grondleggers van de antropologie als wetenschap) --- Echange cérémoniel --- Social values --- Axiology --- Worth --- Aesthetics --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Metaphysics --- Psychology --- Ethics --- Gift exchange --- Exchange --- Rites and ceremonies --- Anthropology - Philosophy --- Sociology --- Economic sociology
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This monograph exhaustively investigates the semantic domain of ‘gift’ in Ancient Hebrew, which comprises 28 substantives. The investigation firstly focuses on the syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations that determine the meanings of each individual lexeme and subsequently provides an overall picture of the developments and extensions of the whole lexical field across the different layers of Ancient Hebrew. The investigation sheds new light on the debated issue of the so-called sectarian Qumran writings, by demonstrating that they attest to distinctive patterns of lexical organisation that are not found elsewhere in Ancient Hebrew. The appendix finally discusses the feasibility of drawing concept related conclusions on the basis of linguistic data, thus sketching a possible map of the concept of ‘gift’.
Ceremonial exchange --- Gifts in literature. --- Gifts --- Hebrew language --- Terminology. --- Semantics. --- 221.02*1 --- 809.24 --- 809.24 Hebreeuws. Hebreeuwse taalkunde --- Hebreeuws. Hebreeuwse taalkunde --- 221.02*1 Oud Testament: bijbelse filologie: hebreeuws --- Oud Testament: bijbelse filologie: hebreeuws --- Gift exchange --- Exchange --- Rites and ceremonies --- Donations --- Presents --- Generosity --- Manners and customs --- Free material --- Gifts in literature --- Terminology --- Semantics
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