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'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.

Ceremonial exchange. --- Gifts. --- Cadeaux --- Echange cérémoniel --- Echange cérémoniel --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Sociology of culture

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"Historically, canonic studies of ritual have discussed and explained ritual organization, action, and transformation primarily as representations of broader cultural and social orders. In the present, as in the past, less attention is given to the power of ritual to organize and effect transformation through its own dynamics. Breaking with convention, the contributors to this volume were asked to discuss ritual first and foremost in relation to itself, in its own right, and only then in relation to its socio-cultural context. The results attest to the variable capacities of rites to effect transformation through themselves, and to the study of phenomena in their own right as a fertile approach to comprehending ritual dynamics."--BOOK JACKET.

Rites and ceremonies --- Ritual --- Ceremonial exchange --- Rites et cérémonies --- Rituel --- Echange cérémoniel --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Ritual. --- Ceremonial exchange. --- Rites et cérémonies --- Echange cérémoniel

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Présente les résultats d'un itinéraire de recherche singulier, qui a mené Guy Nicolas de l'analyse ethnographique la plus minutieuse des pratiques de don rituel en Afrique à une réflexion sur les mobilisations politiques actuelles au sein de ces sociétés, qu'il analyse comme des "ensembles à polarité variable" (le Nigeria ou l'Afghanistan mais aussi l'ex-Yougoslavie, par exemple).

Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Ceremonial exchange --- Rites and ceremonies --- Sacrifice --- Ethnology --- Echange cérémoniel --- Rites et cérémonies --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- Comparative studies --- Etudes comparatives --- Echange cérémoniel --- Rites et cérémonies

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Gifts --- Ceremonial exchange --- Renaissance --- Cadeaux --- Echange cérémoniel --- History --- Histoire --- France --- Social life and customs --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Social life and customs. --- Echange cérémoniel --- Gifts - France - History - 16th century. --- Ceremonial exchange - France - History - 16th century. --- Renaissance - France.

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This book concerns barter, a transaction in which objects are exchanged directly for one another without the use of money. Economists treat barter as an inefficient alternative to market exchange, and assume that it is normal only in 'primitive' economies or marks the breakdown of more developed exchange mechanisms. For their part, anthropologists have been more interested in the social and moral complexities of the 'gift', and treat barter dismissively as mere haggling. The authors of this collection do not accept that barter occupies a residual space between monetary and gift economies. Using accounts from different parts of the world, they aim to demonstrate that it is more than a simple and self-evident economic institution. Barter may constitute a mode of exchange with its own social characteristics occupying a specific moral space. This novel treatment of barter represents an original and topical addition to the literature on economic anthropology.

Barter --- Ceremonial exchange --- Ceremoniële ruil --- Contre-don --- Don -- Anthropologie --- Don cérémoniel --- Don et contre-don --- Don rituel --- Gift exchange --- Ruilhandel --- Troc --- Échange cérémoniel --- Échange rituel --- Echange cérémoniel --- #SBIB:39A4 --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Barter. --- Ceremonial exchange. --- Echange cérémoniel --- Exchange --- Rites and ceremonies --- In-kind exchange --- Payment-in-kind --- Local exchange trading systems --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Echanges --- Anthropologie sociale --- Anthropologie culturelle --- Anthropologie culturelle et sociale --- Histoire économique