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Title: SOCIOLOGY OF GIVING
By: Helmuth Berking
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0761956492
ISBN 13: 9780761956495
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Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
Pub. date: 30 March, 1999
Series: Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
Pages: 176
Translated from: German
Description: An anthropological study of the gift, that relates giving to the institutions and social structures of modern life
Synopsis: This book decodes the ambivalence of gift-giving. It examines its socio-ethical and integrative potential. Following a short recollection of contemporary gift-giving, its motives, occasions and its rules, the reader is invited to travel back in time and space examining 'sacrifice', 'food-sharing', and 'gift giving' as those basic institutions upon which symbolic orders of 'traditional' society rely. The historical invention of hospitality is considered and paves the way to an analysis of the anthropology of giving. Berking goes on to explore the transition from traditional society to the market, self interest form. He questions the view that our societies are dominated by individualism and explores the contemporary interplay between self interest and the common good.
Publication: US
Imprint: SAGE Publications Inc
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