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1 online resource (438 pages). |
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Akademiekonferenzen ; v. 17
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Akademiekonferenzen.
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Table of Contents; Filippo Carlà and Maja Gori: Introduction; Section 1. "Gift Giving", "Gift Exchange", "Gift Economy"; Beate Wagner Hasel: Karl Bücher and the Birth of the Theory of Gift-Giving; Marcel HénaffIs: There Such a Thing as a Gift Economy?; David Reinstein: The Economics of the Gift; Lucio Bertelli: The Ratio of Gift-Giving in Homeric Poems; Koenraad Verboven:'Like bait on a hook'. Ethics, Etics and Emics of Gift-Exchange in theRoman World; Section 2. Gift and Society; Lucia Cecchet: Giving to the Poor in Ancient Greece: A Form of Social Aid? |
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Sabien Colpaert: Euergetism and the giftLellia Cracco Ruggini:From Pagan to Christian Euergetism; Andreas M. Fleckner:The Peculium: a legal device for donations to personae alieno iurisubiectae?; Marta García Morcillo: Limiting Generosity: Conditions and Restrictions on Roman Donations; Section 3. Gift and Religion; Maja Gori:Metal Hoards as Ritual Gift: Circulation, Collection and Alienation of BronzeArtefacts in Late Bronze Age Europe; Irene Berti:Value for Money: Pleasing the Gods and Impressing Mortals in the Archaic andEarly Classical Age. |
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Michael L. Satlow:Markets and Tithes in Roman PalestineLuigi Canetti: Christian Gift and Gift Exchange from Late Antiquity to the EarlyMiddle Ages; Section 4. The Object Gift; Luca Peyronel:Between Archaic Market and Gift Exchange: the Role of Silver in the EmbeddedEconomies of the Ancient Near East During the Bronze Age; Thomas Blank:Philosophy as Leitourgia. Sophists, Fees, and the Civic Role of paideia; Filippo Carlà: Exchange and the Saints: Gift-Giving and the Commerce of Relics. |
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The idea of a 'gift economy' has a long tradition in social, economic and cultural studies, since Marcel Mauss' seminal work. But in the latest years, anthropological, philosophical and economic research have underlined that nothing such as a 'gift economy' exists - at least if conceived as a phase preceding modern exchange - and that the 'phenomenon gift' must be understood not only in the different social and cultural contexts in which it is embedded, but also in its coexistence and connections to other forms of exchange, from commerce, to barter, to theft. This book analyzes from a multipli. |
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Gifts -- Economic aspects -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses.
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Gifts -- Economic aspects. |
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History. |
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To 1500 |
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Gifts. |
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Gifts -- Social aspects. |
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Gifts -- Social aspects -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses.
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Economic history -- To 500 -- Congresses.
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Economic history. |
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To 500 |
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Civilization, Ancient -- Congresses.
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Civilization, Ancient. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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History.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Gori, Maja.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Carlà, Filippo. Gift Giving and the 'Embedded' Economy in the Ancient World. Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, ©2014 9783825363314 |
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3825374610 |
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9783825374617 (electronic book) |
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