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The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property

by Lewis Hyde

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disappointed by the somewhat lengthy and repetitive theoretical approach and by the irrelevant long passage with two "experiments in gift aesthetics" on whitman and pound - seemingly endless pages of close analysis that were interesting, but had little in common with the main thesis, and should have been published on their own.
i would still agree that many interesting points were mentioned. the book fed my mind on the subject of gifts and gift exchange (gifts vs. commodities, community vs. liberty and bonds vs.freedom). ( )
  flydodofly | Jun 13, 2011 |
This classic work explores the mystery of giving through anthropological examples, and extends that analysis to explain artistic creation as essentially a giving, altruistic activity. ( )
  Informatix95 | Sep 20, 2009 |
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O wonderful! O wonderful! O wonderful! I am food! I am food! I am food! I eat food! I eat food! I eat food! My name never dies, never dies, never dies! I was born first in the first of worlds, earlier than the gods, in the belly of what has no death! Whoever gives me away has helped me the most! I, who am food, eat the eater of food! I have overcome this world! He who knows this shines like the sun. Such are the laws of the mystery! Taittiri-ya Upanishad
You received gifts from me; they were accepted. But you don't understand how to think about the dead. The smell of winter apples, of hoarfrost, and of linen. There are nothing but gifts on this poor, poor earth. Czeslaw Milosz
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Book salesmen find it hand to have a ten-second description of each title when they go into a bookstore to pitch the product.
When the Puritans first landed in Massachusetts, they discovered a thing so curious about the Indians' feelings for property that they felt called upon to give it a name.
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Discusses the argument that a work of art is essentially a gift and not a commodity.

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Examines the concept of gifts in anthropological terms and uses this approach to analyze the situation of creative artists and their gifts to society.

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