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" The gift : "
Lewis Hyde.
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BL
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872313
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| Main Entry
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Hyde, Lewis,1945-
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The gift : : imagination and the erotic life of property /\ Lewis Hyde.
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| Publication Statement
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London :: Vintage,, 1999.
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A Vintage original
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xvii, 327 pages :: illustrations ;; 20 cm
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| ISBN
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0099273225
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: 9780099273226
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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I: A theory of gifts: -- Some food we could not eat -- The bones of the dead -- The labor of gratitute -- The bond -- The gift community -- A female property -- Usury: a history of gift exchange. II: Two experiments in gift aesthetics: -- The commerce of the creative spirit -- A draft of Whitman -- Ezra Pound and the fate of vegetable money -- Conclusion.
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| Abstract
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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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Art and society.
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Economic anthropology.
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Gifts.
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Art and society.
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Economic anthropology.
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Gifts.
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Ästhetik.
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Literatur.
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Ökonomische Anthropologie.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.32
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| LC Classification
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GN449.6.H93 1999
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