Abstract
The Afterword draws out several themes of the volume and situates them against broader trends in studies of gift giving, such as contextualization and codification. In particular, the Afterword brings their core themes into dialogue with recent Francophone scholarship on the gift by Alain Caill and others. It invites us to consider the importance of who is interpreting the gift-relationship and when the interpretation occurs, and to think of the gift as a form of performance from ancient rituals to more modern institutionalized practices that simultaneously mitigates the dangers by domesticating the gift while threatening the gift's freedom and spontaneity.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Dangers of Gifts from Antiquity to the Digital Age |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
| Pages | 210-216 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781000651607 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781032298542 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jan 2022 |
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