The Dangers of Gifts from Antiquity to the Digital Age (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Urakova, Alexandra; Sala, Tudor; Sowerby, Tracey A.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first volume that examines dangerous gift-giving across centuries and disciplines. Bringing to the fore the subject that features as an aside in gift studies, it offers new insights into the ambivalent and troubled history of gift-giving.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000651614
• Artikelnr.: 64314176

Autorenporträt

Alexandra Urakova is a Kone Foundation fellow at Tampere University and holds the title of docent in North-American Studies at the University of Helsinki. Tracey A. Sowerby is a Research Associate at St Benet's Hall, Oxford and the Director of the Europaeum Scholars Programme. Tudor Sala has been awarded postdoctoral fellowships from the Leibniz Association/DAAD, the Dahlem Research School/COFUND, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, and the Institute for Advanced Study at the Central European University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Unpacking the Dangerous Gift Part 1: Gifts Divine, Demonic,
and Devout 1. Demonic Gifts and Counter-gifts in Ancient Zoroastrianism 2.
Blessings, Bribes and Bishops: Cyril of Alexandria, the Council of Ephesus
(431) and the Making of Orthodoxy 3. 'The most precious of all gifts':
Sentimentality, Consumption, and The Gift of Death in Warner, Phelps, and
Twain 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 5. A Pandora's Box of National Hostility?: The
Széchényis and Aristocratic Donations in Nineteenth Century East-Central
Europe 6. The Dangerous Gift of Universal Income: The Problem of Rentier
Dependency in Venezuela 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 8. The
Dual Dangers of the Gift 9. The Birthday Cake: Commodity, Thing, Object,
and Token. Afterword: Gifts, Dangers and Their Performative Context