The Gift in Antiquity

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Michael Satlow
John Wiley & Sons, 22.02.2013 - 272 Seiten

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 antiquity
  • Takes an explicitly cross-cultural approach to the study of ancient history
 

Inhalt

Notes on Contributors
Marriage Gifts in Ancient Greece
The Lessons of Anthropology from
The Repertoire of Christian
GiftGiving and Power Relationships in Greek Social Praxis
Fictive Giftship and Fictive Friendship in GrecoRoman
Roman Reciprocity
The Economy of Gifts in Amorous
Gifts to the Dead
Mortuary and Devotional Graffiti in
Gifts to the Poor in Early Rabbinic
Barter Deal or FriendMaking Gift? A Reconsideration
Peter Browns Interpretative
Elite Identities
From Sacrif ice to Donation
Index of Subjects and Names

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Autoren-Profil (2013)

Michael L. Satlow is Professor of Religious Studies and Judaic Studies at Brown University. He is the author of Creating Judaism: History, Tradition, Practice (2006); Jewish Marriage in Antiquity (2001); Rabbinic Rhetorics of Sexuality (1995) and numerous essays on Jews and Judaism in antiquity.

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