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Author : Chris A. Gregory
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)
Download or read book Gifts and Commodities written by Chris A. Gregory and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James G. Carrier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134816650
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)
Download or read book Gifts and Commodities written by James G. Carrier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three hundred years ago people made most of what they used, or got it in trade from their neighbours. Now, no one seems to make anything, and we buy what we need from shops. Gifts and Commodities describes the cultural and historical process of these changes and looks at the rise of consumer society in Britain and the United States. It investigates the ways that people think about and relate to objects in twentieth-century culture, at how those relationships have developed, and the social meanings they have for relations with others. Using aspects of anthropology and sociology to describe the importance of shopping and gift-giving in our lives and in western economies, Gifts and Commodities: * traces the development of shopping and retailing practices, and the emergence of modern notions of objects and the self * brings together a wealth of information on the history of the retail trade * examines the reality of the distinctions we draw between the impersonal economic sphere and personal social sphere * offers a fully interdisciplinary study of the links we forge between ourselves, our social groups and the commodities we buy and give.
Author : Chris A. Gregory
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)
Download or read book Gifts and Commodities written by Chris A. Gregory and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C.A. Gregory
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135299412
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)
Download or read book Savage Money written by C.A. Gregory and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005-08-02 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is not simply another general theory of world system. It is a theoretically and ethnographically informed collection of essays which opens up new questions through an examination of concrete cases, covering global and local questions of political economy.
Author : Yunxiang Yan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780804726955
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Flow of Gifts written by Yunxiang Yan and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, the author examines the gift-giving and related social activities that pervade daily life in China, focusing on routine activities.
Author : Janet Wasko
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118799445
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications written by Janet Wasko and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last decade, political economy has grown rapidly as a specialist area of research and teaching within communications and media studies and is now established as a core element in university programmes around the world. The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications offers students and scholars a comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-date and accessible overview of key areas and debates. Combines overviews of core ideas with new case study materials and the best of contemporary theorization and research Written many of the best known authors in the field Includes an international line-up of contributors, drawn from the key markets of North and Latin America, Europe, Australasia, and the Far East
Author : Kieran Healy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226322386
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)
Download or read book Last Best Gifts written by Kieran Healy and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any other altruistic gesture, blood and organ donation exemplifies the true spirit of self-sacrifice. Donors literally give of themselves for no reward so that the life of an individual—often anonymous—may be spared. But as the demand for blood and organs has grown, the value of a system that depends solely on gifts has been called into question, and the possibility has surfaced that donors might be supplemented or replaced by paid suppliers. Last Best Gifts offers a fresh perspective on this ethical dilemma by examining the social organization of blood and organ donation in Europe and the United States. Gifts of blood and organs are not given everywhere in the same way or to the same extent—contrasts that allow Kieran Healy to uncover the pivotal role that institutions play in fashioning the contexts for donations. Procurement organizations, he shows, sustain altruism by providing opportunities to give and by producing public accounts of what giving means. In the end, Healy suggests, successful systems rest on the fairness of the exchange, rather than the purity of a donor’s altruism or the size of a financial incentive.
Author : Robert Epstein
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786831708
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)
Download or read book Chaucer's Gifts written by Robert Epstein and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the most celebrated literary work of medieval England, portrays the culture of the late Middle Ages as a deeply commercial environment, replete with commodities and dominated by market relationships. However, the market is not the only mode of exchange in Chaucer’s world or in his poem. Chaucer’s Gifts reveals the gift economy at work in the tales. Applying important recent advances in anthropological gift theory, it illuminates and explains this network of exchanges and obligations. Chaucer’s Gifts argues that the world of the Canterbury Tales harbours deep commitments to reciprocity and obligation which are at odds with a purely commercial culture, and demonstrates how the market and commercial relations are not natural, eternal, or inevitable – an essential lesson if we are to understand Chaucer’s world or our own.
Author : Robert Macfarlane
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241982707
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Gifts of Reading written by Robert Macfarlane and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of The Old Ways and Landmarks -- an essay on the joy of reading, for anyone who has ever loved a book Every book is a kind of gift to its reader, and the act of giving books is charged with a special emotional resonance. It is a meeting of three minds (the giver, the author, the recipient), an exchange of intellectual and psychological currency, that leaves each participant enriched. Here Robert Macfarlane recounts the story of a book he was given as a young man, and how he managed eventually to return the favour, though never repay the debt. From one of the most lyrical writers of our time comes a perfectly formed gem, a lyrical celebration of the transcendent power and humanity of the given book.
Author : Susan Leigh Foster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019093400X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)
Download or read book Valuing Dance written by Susan Leigh Foster and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because dance materializes through and for people, because we learn to dance from others and often present dance to others, the moment of its transmission is one of dance's central and defining features. Valuing Dance looks at the occasion when dancing passes from one person to another as an act of exchange, one that is redolent with symbolic meanings, including those associated with its history and all the labor that has gone into its making. It examines two ways that dance can be exchanged, as commodity and as gift, reflecting on how each establishes dance's relative worth and merit differently. When and why do we give dance? Where and to whom do we sell it? How are such acts of exchange rationalized and justified? Valuing Dance poses these questions in order to contribute to a conversation around what dance is, what it does, and why it matters.
