Book: Enigma Of Gift And Sacrifice Enigma Of Gift And Sacrifice What does it mean to give a agifta? In this timely collection, distinguished anthropologistsaMaurice Godelier, George Marcus, Stephen Tyleraand philosophersaMark C. Taylor, John D. Caputo, Jean-Joseph Goux and Adriaan Peperzak, explore an enigma that has disturbed contemporary philosophers from Marcel Mauss to Jacques Derrida.The essays included in the volume: Some Things You Give, Some Things You Sell, But Some Things You Must Keep for Yourselves: What Mauss Did Not Say about Sacred Objects by Maurice Godelie.The Gift and Globalization: A Prolegomenon to the Anthropological Study of Contemporary Finance Capital and Its Mentalities by George MarcusCapitalizing (on) Gifting by Mark C. TayloraEven Stevena or aNo Strings Attacheda by Stephen TylerMothering, Co-muni-cation and the Gifts of Language by Genevieve VaughanThe Time of Giving, the Time of Forgiving by John D. CaputoSeneca against Derrida: Gift and Alterity by Jean-Joseph Goux Giving by Adriaan Peperzak
Details of Book: Enigma Of Gift And Sacrifice Enigma Of Gift And Sacrifice Book: Enigma Of Gift And Sacrifice Enigma Of Gift And Sacrifice
Author: Fordham University Press, Edith Wyschogrod, Jean-joseph Goux
ISBN: 0823221660
ISBN-13: 9780823221660
, 978-0823221660
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: Jan 2002
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Number of Pages: 200
Language: English