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Gift Giving and the 'Embedded' Economy in the Ancient World.
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...
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Heidelberg :
Universitätsverlag Winter,
2014.
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| Series: | Akademiekonferenzen.
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Table of Contents:
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.