Sociology of Giving - 9780761956495
Un libro in lingua di Helmuth Berking edito da Sage Pubns, 1999
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We all give and receive gifts. But few of us reflect on the risks and uncertainties inherent to this form. For example, to give means to acquire power, to effect a symbolic exchange, to initiate ties and alliances, to convey social messages to others and to classify our own status. Gift-giving is also a device to register honour and shame, to show solidarity, to equalize and to create intimacy.
This fascinating volume looks at the ambivalence of gift-giving; contemporary gift-giving, its motives, occasions and its rules; examines `sacrifice', `food-sharing' and `gift-giving' as those basic institutions upon which symbolic orders of `traditional' society rely; and considers the historical invention of hospitality, paving the
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Sociology of Giving
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Helmuth Berking
- Editore: Sage Pubns
- Collana: Sage Pubns (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 20 Settembre '99
- Genere: SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Argomenti : Gifts Social aspects Generosity Social aspects Self interest
- Pagine: 165
- Dimensioni mm: 234 x 165 x 12
- EAN-13: 9780761956495