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Gifts --- Inw (The Egyptian word) --- Egyptian language --- Donations --- Presents --- Generosity --- Manners and customs --- Free material --- History --- Etymology --- Egypt --- Economic conditions

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The anthropologist Marcel Mauss, in his famous exploration of the gift in "primitive" and archaic societies, showed that the essential aspect of the exchange of presents involved the establishment of a social tie that bound the parties together above and beyond any material value of the objects exchanged. He argued that these intangible mutual "debts" constituted the social fabric. Godbout and Caillé show that, contrary to the modern assumption that societies function on the basis of market exchange and the pursuit of self-interest, the gift still constitutes the foundation of our social fabric. The authors describe the gift not as an object but as a social connection, perhaps the most important social connection because it creates a sense of obligation to respond in kind. They examine the gift in a broad range of cases such as blood and organ donation; volunteer work; the bonds between friends, couples, and family; Santa Claus; the interaction between performers and their audience; and the relation of the artist to society. Written in an engaging manner, The World of the Gift will appeal to anyone who is interested in how the world really operates.

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Gifts --- Law and legislation --- Taxation --- Donations --- Presents --- Generosity --- Manners and customs --- Free material --- Gifts - Law and legislation - Netherlands --- Gifts - Taxation - Law and legislation - Netherlands

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In 'The Gift of Death', Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration of religion to date, he continues to explore questions introduced in 'Given Time' about the limits of the rational and responsible that one reaches in granting or accepting death, whether by sacrifice, murder, execution, or suicide. Derrida analyzes Patocka's 'Heretical Essays on the History of Philosophy' and develops and compares his ideas to the works of Heidegger, Levinas, and Kierkegaard. A major work, 'The Gift of Death' resonates with much of Derrida's earlier writing and will be of interest to scholars in anthropology, philosophy, and literary criticism, along with scholars of ethics and religion. "'The Gift of Death' is Derrida's long-awaited deconstruction of the foundations of the project of a philosophical ethics, and it will long be regarded as one of the most significant of his many writings."--'Choice' "An important contribution to the critical study of ethics that commends itself to philosophers, social scientists, scholars of relgion . . . [and those] made curious by the controversy that so often attends Derrida."--'Booklist ' "Derrida stares death in the face in this dense but rewarding inquiry. . . . Provocative."--'Publishers Weekly'

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Gifts --- Gifts in literature --- Donations --- Presents --- Generosity --- Manners and customs --- Free material --- Baudelaire, Charles, --- Mauss, Marcel, --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Baudelaire, Charles