The Question of the Gift: Essays Across Disciplines: 2 (Routledge Studies in Anthropology)

Mark Osteen

ISBN 10: 0415282772 / ISBN 13: 9780415282772

Published by Routledge 2002-08-08, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Question of the Gift: Essays Across Disciplines: 2 (Routledge Studies in Anthropology)
• Publisher: Routledge 2002-08-08
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415282772
• ISBN 13: 9780415282772
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The Question of the Gift is the first collection of new interdisciplinary essays on the gift. Bringing together scholars from a variety of fields, including anthropology, literary criticism, economics, philosophy and classics, it provides new paradigms and poses new questions concerning the theory and practice of gift exchange. In addressing these questions, contributors not only challenge the conventions of their fields, but also combine ideas and methods from both the social sciences and humanities to forge innovative ways of confronting this universal phenomenon.

About the Author

Mark Osteen is Professor of English and Director of the Center for the Humanities at Loyola University Maryland. He is the author of four books, including One of Us: A Family's Life with Autism, the editor of the Viking Critical Edition of Don DeLillo's White Noise, and co-editor, with Martha Woodmansee, of The New Economic Criticism (Routledge, 1999).