The gift in antiquity / / edited by Michael L. Satlow

• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley-Blackwell, c2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (269 p.)
• Disciplina: 394
• Soggetto topico: Gifts - History; Civilization, Ancient
• Altri autori: SatlowMichael L
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; Neither Mauss nor Veyne?: Asymmetric Giving in Historical Perspective
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The gift in antiquity
• ISBN: 1-118-51790-3; 1-118-51789-X; 1-299-24133-6; 1-118-51788-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822379703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ancient world--comparative histories.