LEADER 05413nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910141599703321 005 20230803025516.0 010 $a1-118-51790-3 010 $a1-118-51789-X 010 $a1-299-24133-6 010 $a1-118-51788-1 035 $a(CKB)2670000000336830 035 $a(EBL)1129733 035 $a(OCoLC)829460547 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000831917 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11440101 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000831917 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10881605 035 $a(PQKB)10358494 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1129733 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4957665 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1129733 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10662627 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4957665 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL455383 035 $a(OCoLC)841215968 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000336830 100 $a20120924d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe gift in antiquity$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Michael L. Satlow 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aHoboken, N.J. $cWiley-Blackwell$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (269 p.) 225 1 $aThe ancient world : comparative histories 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4443-5024-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aThe 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" 327 $aA 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 327 $aThe 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 327 $aGrave 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 phernai?; An Anthropological Approach 327 $aThe Meaning of the Solonian pherne?: 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 327 $aNeither Mauss nor Veyne?: Asymmetric Giving in Historical Perspective 330 $aThe Gift in Antiquity presents a collection of 14 original essays that apply French sociologist Marcel Mauss's notion of gift-giving to the study of antiquity. Features a collection of original essays that cover such wide-ranging topics as vows in the Hebrew Bible; ancient Greek wedding gifts; Hellenistic civic practices; Latin literature; Roman and Jewish burial practices; and Jewish and Christian religious gifts Organizes essays around theoretical concerns rather than chronologically Generates unique insights into gift-giving and reciprocity in antiquit 410 0$aAncient world--comparative histories. 606 $aGifts$xHistory 606 $aCivilization, Ancient 615 0$aGifts$xHistory. 615 0$aCivilization, Ancient. 676 $a394 701 $aSatlow$b Michael L$0968554 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910141599703321 996 $aThe gift in antiquity$92263996 997 $aUNINA