The dangers of gifts from antiquity to the digital age. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Alexandra Urakova, Tracey A. Sowerby, and Tudor Sala.
• Editors: Urakova, Alexandra, 1979-; Sowerby, Tracey Amanda, 1979-; Sala, Tudor
• Contents: Introduction: Unpacking the Dangerous Gift Tracey A. Sowerby and Alexandra Urakova Part 1: Gifts Divine, Demonic, and Devout 1. Demonic Gifts and Counter-gifts in Ancient Zoroastrianism Shervin Farridnejad 2. Blessings, Bribes and Bishops: Cyril of Alexandria, the Council of Ephesus (431) and the Making of Orthodoxy Volker Menze 3. ‘The most precious of all gifts’: Sentimentality, Consumption, and The Gift of Death in Warner, Phelps, and Twain Alexandra Urakova Part 2: The Precarious Politics of the Gift 4. The Dangerous Gift as Diplomatic Tool: Relics and Cross-confessional Gift-giving at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century Tracey A. Sowerby 5. A Pandora’s Box of National Hostility?: The Széchényis and Aristocratic Donations in Nineteenth Century East-Central Europe Sándor Hites 6. The Dangerous Gift of Universal Income: The Problem of Rentier Dependency in Venezuela Aaron Kappeler Part 3: The Dark Side of the Gift Economy 7. Taking Aim at ‘Exchange Gifts’ and the ‘Christmas Tax’: Dangerous Gifts in the Progressive Era and the Society for the Prevention of Useless Giving Ellen Litwicki 8. The Dual Dangers of the Gift Russell Belk 9. The Birthday Cake: Commodity, Thing, Object, and Token Robert Appelbaum Afterword: Gifts, Dangers and Their Performative Context Ilana F. Silber
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 394; Gifts -- History; Gifts -- Social aspects; Social interaction -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000651614; 9781000651607; 9781003302407
• Related ISBNs: 9781032298542
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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