Dangers of Gifts from Antiquity to the Digital Age

Dangers of Gifts from Antiquity to the Digital Age

Sala, Tudor; Sowerby, Tracey A.; Urakova, Alexandra

Taylor & Francis Ltd

09/2022

258

Dura

Inglês

9781032298542

15 a 20 dias

653

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Introduction: Unpacking the Dangerous Gift Part 1: Gifts Divine, Demonic, and Devout 1. Demonic Gifts and Counter-gifts in Ancient Zoroastrianism 2. Blessings, Bribes and Bishops: Cyril of Alexandria, the Council of Ephesus (431) and the Making of Orthodoxy 3. 'The most precious of all gifts': Sentimentality, Consumption, and The Gift of Death in Warner, Phelps, and Twain Part 2:The Precarious Politics of the Gift 4. The Dangerous Gift as Diplomatic Tool: Relics and Cross-confessional Gift-giving at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century 5. A Pandora's Box of National Hostility?: The Szechenyis and Aristocratic Donations in Nineteenth Century East-Central Europe 6. The Dangerous Gift of Universal Income: The Problem of Rentier Dependency in Venezuela Part 3: The Dark Side of the Gift Economy 7. Taking Aim at 'Exchange Gifts' and the 'Christmas Tax': Dangerous Gifts in the Progressive Era and the Society for the Prevention of Useless Giving 8. The Dual Dangers of the Gift 9. The Birthday Cake: Commodity, Thing, Object, and Token. Afterword: Gifts, Dangers and Their Performative Context
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National Library;Young Man;Gift's Dangers;Representative Publicity;Vice Versa;Gift Exchange;Hookup Apps;Enjo Kosai;Gates Ajar;Birthday Cake;Basic Income Grants;Donner La Mort;Universal Basic Income;Zoroastrian Theology;Diplomatic Gifts;Hookup Script;Queen Consort;Twelve Chapters;Cross-class Organization;Marketplace Exchange;Party Games;Silver Dollar;East Central Europe;Food Security Program;National Academy