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Gift-giving in Japan : cash, connections, cosmologies / Katherine Rupp.
Penn Museum Library GT3040.J3 R86 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rupp, Katherine.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gifts--Japan.
- Gifts.
- Ceremonial exchange--Japan.
- Ceremonial exchange.
- National characteristics, Japanese.
- Japan--Social life and customs.
- Japan.
- Manners and customs.
- Japan--Economic conditions.
- Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- Recent anthropological interest in drawing a strong contrast between commodities and gifts both reflects and reinforces the conception of the gift as part of the giver and the related distinction between the realm of the gift and the realm of the marketplace. The author argues that Japanese practices of giving and receiving challenge assumptions related to this idea of the gift.
- Contents:
- 1 Examples of Giving 1
- 2 Strength of Relationship, Gratitude, and Hierarchy 34
- 3 Life Cycles 51
- 4 Seasonal Cycles 102
- 5 Variations in Attitudes toward and Practices of Giving 155.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-217) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804747032
- 0804747040
- OCLC:
- 52047484
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