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.

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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 and

  • ★★★★ ★ 4.5 (2 ratings)
  • 41 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 4 Have read

Discusses the argument that a work of art is essentially a gift and not a commodity.

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Publisher
Vintage Books
Language
English
Pages
327

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Subjects

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 Anthropology

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The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World (Vintage)
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The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property
March 4, 1999, Trafalgar Square
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The gift: imagination and the erotic life of property
1983, Random House
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The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property
1983, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage Books ed.
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The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property
February 12, 1983, Vintage
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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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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306/.32
Library of Congress
GN449.6 .H93 1983b

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 327 p. ;
Number of pages
327

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3507650M
ISBN 10
0394715195
LCCN
82049088
OCLC/WorldCat
9194917
LibraryThing
258760
Goodreads
56472

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL2670076W

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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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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.
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