@article{1478162, author = {Boynton, Eric, and Caputo, John D., and Godelier, Maurice, and Goux, Jean-Joseph, and Goux, Jean-Joseph, and Marcus, George E., and Peperzak, Adriaan, and Taylor, Mark C., and Tyler, Stephen A., and Vaughan, Genevieve, and Wyschogrod, Edith, and Wyschogrod, Edith, }, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478162}, title = {The Enigma of Gift and Sacrifice /}, abstract = {What does it mean to give a "gift"? In this timely collection, distinguished anthropologists-Maurice Godelier, George Marcus, Stephen Tyler-and philosophers-Mark 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. Taylor"Even Steven" or "No Strings Attached" 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}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823296798}, recid = {1478162}, pages = {1 online resource (186 p.)}, }