05892cam a2200721Ia 4500 ocn841215968 OCoLC 20171106120638.0 m o d cr |n||||||||| 121016s2013 enka ob 001 0 eng d 9781118517895 (oBook) 111851789X (electronic bk.) 9781118517888 (electronic bk.) 1118517881 (electronic bk.) 9781444350241 (print) 1444350242 9781299241336 1299241336 AU@ 000052185371 AU@ 000052762682 AU@ 000058063728 DEBSZ 397486758 DEBSZ 449347753 DKDLA 820120-katalog:000655938 NZ1 15341621 (OCoLC)841215968 (OCoLC)829460547 455383 MIL CDX eng pn CDX OCLCO DG1 CUS OCLCQ OCLCF OCLCQ EBLCP YDXCP N$T DEBSZ UKDOC OCLCQ MAIN GT3050 .G55 2013eb CUS eflch SOC 005000 bisacsh 394 23 The gift in antiquity / edited by Michael L. Satlow. [electronic resource] Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. 1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) : illustrations. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier The ancient world. Comparative histories Includes bibliographical references and index. The Gift in Antiquity; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Series Editor's Preface; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Ceremonial Gift-Giving: The Lessons of Anthropology from Mauss and Beyond; Traditional Gift-giving: Mauss's Lesson; Clarifying the Concept: The Three Categories of Gift-Giving; Ceremonial Gift-Exchange Is Neither Economic Nor Moral or Legal; Ceremonial Gift-Giving as a Pact of Recognition; Conclusion; 3 Alms, Blessings, Offerings: The Repertoire of Christian Gifts in Early Byzantium; Origin and Ideals of the Christian "Blessing." A Survey of Christian Gifts in Early Byzantine Greek HagiographyDisinterested Gifts in an Interested Discourse; 4 Gift-Giving and Power Relationships in Greek Social Praxis and Public Discourse; The Archaic Period; Classical Athens; The Hellenistic Period; Final Remarks; 5 Fictive Giftship and Fictive Friendship in Greco-Roman Society; Mauss's Gifting; Mauss in a Greco-Roman Setting; Searching for Clarity; Greco-Roman Model of Exchange; Gifting versus Patronage; Friendship versus Fictive Friendship; Conclusion; 6 Ovid Negotiates with His Mistress: Roman Reciprocity from Public to Private. The Household: Society without GiftsOvid's Stingy Lover; Conclusions; 7 "Can't Buy Me Love": The Economy of Gifts in Amorous Relations; 8 Without Patronage: Fetishization, Representation, and the Circulation of Gift-Texts in the Late Roman Republic; Introduction; Fetishization: Hellenistic Libraries and Royal Theft; Representation: The Book and the Citizen; Without Patrons: Language, Display, and Dedication in Republican Gift-Books; 9 Roses and Violets for the Ancestors: Gifts to the Dead and Ancient Roman Forms of Social Exchange; Roman Death and Gifts to the Dead; Funerary Gifts. Grave GoodsFood Offerings; Dedicated Objects; Rethinking the Grave Gift; The Dead as Rational Actors; Burial Rites and Afterlife Beliefs; Redefining the di manes; Leaving Mauss Behind; 10 Graffiti as Gift: Mortuary and Devotional Graffiti in the Late Ancient Levant; Methodology and Limitations; Graffiti as Gifts of Comfort; Graffiti as Gifts of Protection; Graffiti as Gifts of Provision; Conclusion: Gifts "Real," Metaphorical, and Imagined; 11 Marriage Gifts in Ancient Greece; Introduction; The Solonian Regulation of the phernaí; An Anthropological Approach. The Meaning of the Solonian phernē: Some ThesesThe Value of Cloth: Patterns and Colors; Female Wedding Gifts; Conclusion; 12 Charity Wounds: Gifts to the Poor in Early Rabbinic Judaism; Introduction; The Gift in Early Rabbinic Literature; Problems with Giving a Gift as Charity; Rejecting the Gift; Conclusions; 13 Barter Deal or Friend-Making Gift? A Reconsideration of the Conditional Vow in the Hebrew Bible; 14 Neither Mauss, nor Veyne: Peter Brown's Interpretative Path to the Gift; In Pursuit of the Holy, A Pursuit of the Gift. The Gift in Antiquity presents a collection of 14 original essays that apply French sociologist Marcel Mauss's notion of gift-giving to the study of antiquity. Covers such wide-ranging topics as vows in the Hebrew Bible; ancient Greek wedding gifts; Hellenistic civic practices; Latin literature; Roman and Jewish burial practices; and Jewish and Christian religious giftsOrganizes essays around theoretical concerns rather than chronologicallyTakes an explicitly cross-cultural approach to the study of ancient history. Online resource; title from PDF title page (Wiley, viewed September 17, 2013). Gifts History. Civilization, Ancient. Gifts History. SOCIAL SCIENCES Customs & Traditions. bisacsh Civilization, Ancient. fast (OCoLC)fst00862946 Gifts. fast (OCoLC)fst00942628 Electronic books. History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Satlow, Michael L. Print version: Gift in antiquity. Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 9781444350241 (DLC) 2012036176 (OCoLC)815365461 Ancient world--comparative histories. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118517895 Wiley Online Library ddc BK 206683 206683