When the Puritans first landed in Massachusetts, they discovered a thing so curious about the Indians' feelings for property that they felt called upon to give it a name.
An edition of The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property
(1983)
The Gift
Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property
1st Vintage Books ed.
by Lewis Hyde and Lewis Hyde
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Starting with the premise that the work of art is a gift and not a commodity, this revolutionary book ranges across anthropology, literature, economics, and psychology to show how the 'commerce of the creative spirit' functions in the lives of artists and in culture as a whole.
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Gifts, Economic anthropology, Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.), Art and society, Nonfiction, Sociology, Literary Criticism, Art et société, Begaafdheid, Anthropologie économique, Creativiteit, Création (Arts), Donations, Cadeaux, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Creation (literary, artistic, etc.), AnthropologyShowing 5 featured editions. View all 15 editions?
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1983, Random House
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First Sentence
"When the Puritans first landed in Massachusetts, they discovered a thing so curious about the Indians' feelings for property that they felt called upon to give it a name."
Table of Contents
Introduction
Page xi
I. A Theory of Gifts.
One.
Some Food We Could Not Eat
Page 3
Two.
The Bones of the Dead
Page 25
Three.
The Labor of Gratitude
Page 40
Four.
The Bond
Page 56
Five.
The Gift of Community
Page 74
Six.
A Female Property
Page 93
Seven.
Usury: A History of Gift Exchange
Page 109
II . Two Experiments in Gift Aesthetics.
Eight.
The Commerce of the Creative Spirit
Page 143
Nine.
A Draft of Whitman
Page 160
Ten.
Ezra Pound and the Face of Vegetable Money
Page 216
Conclusion
Page 273
Bibliography
Page 283
Notes
Page 289
Acknowledgments
Page 311
Index
Page 313
Edition Notes
Bibliography: p. [283]-287.
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