Gifts That Beget Gifts
In: The major gifts report: monthly ideas to unlock your major gifts potential, Band 26, Heft 2, S. 5-5
ISSN: 2325-8608
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In: The major gifts report: monthly ideas to unlock your major gifts potential, Band 26, Heft 2, S. 5-5
ISSN: 2325-8608
In: The major gifts report: monthly ideas to unlock your major gifts potential, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 6-6
ISSN: 2325-8608
In: The major gifts report: monthly ideas to unlock your major gifts potential, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 8-8
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In: The major gifts report: monthly ideas to unlock your major gifts potential, Band 20, Heft 2, S. 6-6
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In: The major gifts report: monthly ideas to unlock your major gifts potential, Band 18, Heft 10, S. 3-3
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In: The major gifts report: monthly ideas to unlock your major gifts potential, Band 17, Heft 8, S. 7-7
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In: The major gifts report: monthly ideas to unlock your major gifts potential, Band 17, Heft 3, S. 4-4
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In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 453
In: The Massachusetts review: MR ; a quarterly of literature, the arts and public affairs, Band 47, Heft 2, S. 345-353
ISSN: 0025-4878
In: The major gifts report: monthly ideas to unlock your major gifts potential, Band 21, Heft 12, S. 6-6
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In: The major gifts report: monthly ideas to unlock your major gifts potential, Band 21, Heft 11, S. 6-6
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In: CESifo Working Paper Series No. 3488
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In: European journal of social theory, Band 18, Heft 4, S. 451-468
ISSN: 1461-7137
Social theories of giving have often been shaped by anthropological accounts that present it as a form of pre-market reciprocal exchange, yet this exchangist discourse obscures important contemporary giving practices. This article discusses two types of giving that confound the exchangist model: (1) sharing practices within the family; and (2) free gifts to strangers. Once we reject understandings of giving derived from analyses of non-modern economies, it is possible to see that the gift economy is not a rare survival but rather is a central element of contemporary society and indeed the contemporary economy. The task for social theory is not to anachronize giving but to make sense of the variety and complexity of actual contemporary giving practices. This article offers the categories of free and positional gifts as a contribution to this analysis.