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ISBN 10: 0857026132
ISBN 13: 9780857026132
Author: Helmuth Berking
This book decodes the ambivalence of gift-giving. It examines its socio-ethical and integrative potential. Following a short recollection of contemporary gift-giving, its motives, occasions and its rules, the reader is invited to travel back in time and space examining ′sacrifice′, ′food-sharing′, and ′gift giving′ as those basic institutions upon which symbolic orders of ′traditional′ society rely. The historical invention of hospitality is considered and paves the way to an analysis of the anthropology of giving. Berking goes on to explore the transition from traditional society to the market, self interest form. He questions the view that our societies are dominated by individualism and explores the contemporary interplay between self interest and the common good.
Sociology of Giving 1st Table of contents:
Part I – The Phenomenology of Gift-Giving
1 – Motives
2 – Occasions
3 – Emotional Norms
Part II – Towards an Anthropology of Giving
4 – The Gift
5 – The Sacrifice
6 – Distribution of the Sacrifice
7 – Attributions
Part III – Transitions
8 – Ideal Constructions
9 – Beyond Necessity
Part IV – Morality and Society
10 – Individualization and the Common Welfare
11 – The Solidarity of Individualism
Bibliography
Index
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