Book
The gift : creativity and the artist in the modern world
Record details
- ISBN: 0307279502 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780307279507 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
xxiii, 435 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
print - Edition: 25th anniversary ed. 2nd Vintage Books ed.
- Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 2007.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Originally published as The gift: imagination and the erotic life of property" -- title page verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p.[387]-391) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Some food we could not eat -- The bones of the dead -- The labor of gratitude -- The bond -- The gift community -- A female property -- Usury : a history of gift exchange -- The commerce of the creative spirit -- A draft of Whitman -- Ezra Pound and the fate of vegetable money -- Conclusion -- On being good ancestors. |
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| Subject: | Gifts Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Economic anthropology Art and society |