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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: gift in antiquity
  name:
    name part: Satlow, Michael L.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: The Gift in Antiquity presents a collection of 14 original essays that apply French sociologist Marcel Mauss's notion of gift-giving to the study of antiquity. Covers such wide-ranging topics as vows in the Hebrew Bible; ancient Greek wedding gifts; Hellenistic civic practices; Latin literature; Roman and Jewish burial practices; and Jewish and Christian religious giftsOrganizes essays around theoretical concerns rather than chronologicallyTakes an explicitly cross-cultural approach to the study of ancient history.
  table of contents: The Gift in Antiquity; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Series Editor's Preface; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Ceremonial Gift-Giving: The Lessons of Anthropology from Mauss and Beyond; Traditional Gift-giving: Mauss's Lesson; Clarifying the Concept: The Three Categories of Gift-Giving; Ceremonial Gift-Exchange Is Neither Economic Nor Moral or Legal; Ceremonial Gift-Giving as a Pact of Recognition; Conclusion; 3 Alms, Blessings, Offerings: The Repertoire of Christian Gifts in Early Byzantium; Origin and Ideals of the Christian "Blessing."
  table of contents: A Survey of Christian Gifts in Early Byzantine Greek HagiographyDisinterested Gifts in an Interested Discourse; 4 Gift-Giving and Power Relationships in Greek Social Praxis and Public Discourse; The Archaic Period; Classical Athens; The Hellenistic Period; Final Remarks; 5 Fictive Giftship and Fictive Friendship in Greco-Roman Society; Mauss's Gifting; Mauss in a Greco-Roman Setting; Searching for Clarity; Greco-Roman Model of Exchange; Gifting versus Patronage; Friendship versus Fictive Friendship; Conclusion; 6 Ovid Negotiates with His Mistress: Roman Reciprocity from Public to Private.
  table of contents: The Household: Society without GiftsOvid's Stingy Lover; Conclusions; 7 "Can't Buy Me Love": The Economy of Gifts in Amorous Relations; 8 Without Patronage: Fetishization, Representation, and the Circulation of Gift-Texts in the Late Roman Republic; Introduction; Fetishization: Hellenistic Libraries and Royal Theft; Representation: The Book and the Citizen; Without Patrons: Language, Display, and Dedication in Republican Gift-Books; 9 Roses and Violets for the Ancestors: Gifts to the Dead and Ancient Roman Forms of Social Exchange; Roman Death and Gifts to the Dead; Funerary Gifts.
  table of contents: Grave GoodsFood Offerings; Dedicated Objects; Rethinking the Grave Gift; The Dead as Rational Actors; Burial Rites and Afterlife Beliefs; Redefining the di manes; Leaving Mauss Behind; 10 Graffiti as Gift: Mortuary and Devotional Graffiti in the Late Ancient Levant; Methodology and Limitations; Graffiti as Gifts of Comfort; Graffiti as Gifts of Protection; Graffiti as Gifts of Provision; Conclusion: Gifts "Real," Metaphorical, and Imagined; 11 Marriage Gifts in Ancient Greece; Introduction; The Solonian Regulation of the phernaí; An Anthropological Approach.
  table of contents: The Meaning of the Solonian phernē: Some ThesesThe Value of Cloth: Patterns and Colors; Female Wedding Gifts; Conclusion; 12 Charity Wounds: Gifts to the Poor in Early Rabbinic Judaism; Introduction; The Gift in Early Rabbinic Literature; Problems with Giving a Gift as Charity; Rejecting the Gift; Conclusions; 13 Barter Deal or Friend-Making Gift? A Reconsideration of the Conditional Vow in the Hebrew Bible; 14 Neither Mauss, nor Veyne: Peter Brown's Interpretative Path to the Gift; In Pursuit of the Holy, A Pursuit of the Gift.
  note: edited by Michael L. Satlow.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Gifts
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Civilization, Ancient
  subject:
    topic: Gifts
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCES
    topic: Customs & Traditions
  subject:
    topic: Civilization, Ancient
  subject:
    topic: Gifts
  classification: GT3050 .G55 2013eb
  classification: 394
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Gift in antiquity
    origin info:
      publisher: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013
    identifier: (DLC) 2012036176
    identifier: (OCoLC)815365461
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Ancient world--comparative histories
  identifier: 9781118517895
  identifier: 111851789X
  identifier: 9781118517888
  identifier: 1118517881
  identifier: 9781444350241
  identifier: 1444350242
  identifier: 9781299241336
  identifier: 1299241336
  identifier: 455383 MIL
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118517895
  record info:
    record content source: CDX
    record creation date: 121016
    record change date: 20170124071513.8
    record identifier: ocn841215968
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng