The enigma of gift and sacrifice.
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| Imprint: | New York : Fordham University Press, 2002. |
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| Description: | vi, 186 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Perspectives in continental philosophy ; no. 23 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4641642 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1.. The Economy of Sacrifice
- 1.. Some Things You Give, Some Things You Sell, but Some Things You Must Keep for Yourselves: What Mauss Did Not Say about Sacred Objects
- 2.. The Gift and Globalization: A Prolegomenon to the Anthropological Study of Contemporary Finance Capital and Its Mentalities
- 3.. Capitalizing (on) Gifting
- Part 2.. Community, Gift, and Sacrifice
- 4.. "Even Steven," or "No Strings Attached"
- 5.. Mothering, Co-muni-cation, and the Gifts of Language
- Part 3.. The Gift of Philosophical Discourse
- 6.. The Time of Giving, the Time of Forgiving
- 7.. Seneca against Derrida: Gift and Alterity
- 8.. Giving
- Contributors
- Index
