The gift : imagination and the erotic life of property
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TextNew York Vintage Books Edition: 1st Vintage Books edDescription: xvii, 327p.; bibliog.; bibliog. notes; indexContent type: - text
- unmediated
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- 0-394-71519-5
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Part 1 - A theory of gifts. 1 Some food we could not eat. 2 The bones of the dead. 3 The labor of gratitude. 4 The bond. 5 The gift community. 6 A female property. 7 - Usury: a history of gift exchange. Part 2 - Two experiments in gift aesthetics. 8 The commerce of the creative spirit. 9 A draft of Whitman. 10 Ezra Pound and the fate of vegetable money
'It's clear that Lewis Hyde is one of the finest essayists of his generation. His subject is the old gift-giving cultures and their relation to the colder commodity societies. This book explains many things about gifts, and their relation to art and community. It is well-documented, brave and startling." --Robert Bly
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