Gifts, romance, and consumer culture. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Yuko Minowa and Russell W. Belk.
• Editors: Minowa, Yuko; Belk, Russell W
• Contents: SECTION I Overview 1 Introduction Yuko Minowa and Russell W. Belk SECTION II. Romantic Gift Giving: The Nature of Love 2 Are we a perfect match? Roles for market mediators in defining perfect gifts Tonya Williams Bradford 3 Romantic gift giving of mature consumers: A storgic love paradigm Yuko Minowa and Russell W. Belk 4 If you love me, surprise me Aditya Gupta and James W. Gentry 5 Characteristics and meanings of good and bad romantic gifts across cultures: A recipient’s perspective Sydney Chinchanachokchai and Theeranuch Pusaksrikit SECTION III Romantic Gift Giving Contexts 6 Practicing masculinity and reciprocation in gendered gift-giving rituals: White Day in Japan, 1980-2009 Yuko Minowa, Russell W. Belk, and Takeshi Matsui 7 Romantic gifts as an expression of masculinity amongst young men with disabilities in Zimbabwe Tafadzwa Rugoho 8 Gift giving within adult daughter-mother dyads Chihling Liu, Xin Zhao, and Margaret K. Hogg 9 Crunch my heart! It falls for you: Carnal-singularity and chocolate gift-giving across language contexts Marjaana Mäkelä, Shona Bettany, and Lorna Stevens SECTION IV Romantic Gift Giving: Unselfishness and Self-Interest 10 Romantic potential of money: When credit becomes a gift Domen Bajde and Pilar Rojas Gavria 11 From strangers to family: How material and non-material gift giving strategies create agapic relationships over time Lydia Ottlewski 12 Romantic self-gifts to "hidden true self": Self-gifting and multiple selves Saori Kanno and Satoko Suzuki 13 For you and for me: Creative experiences as gifts Eirini Koronaki, Antigone G. Kyrousi, and Athina Y. Zotou Conclusion 14 Reflections on romantic gift exchange: An intersectional conversation Cele C. Otnes and Robert Alfonso Arias Epilogue 15 Four Gift Poems John F. Sherry, Jr.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 394; Gifts; Courtship; Consumer behavior; Consumers -- Research
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351385046; 9781351385053; 9781351385039; 9781315144658
• Related ISBNs: 9781138500709
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