The gift as material culture
Subtitle: report of a Yale-Smithsonian seminar held at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., April 28-30, 1991
By: edited by Patricia Thatcher and Paul Michael Taylor with Cynthia Adams Hoover.
Contributors: Thatcher, Patricia.; Taylor, Paul Michael, 1953-; Hoover, Cynthia A.; Smithsonian Institution.; Yale University.; Yale-Smithsonian Seminar on Material Culture (1991 : Washington, D.C.)
Series: Yale-Smithsonian reports on material culture,; no. 4
Publisher: Yale-Smithsonian Seminar on Material Culture
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New Haven, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 59
Subjects: Gifts -- Congresses.; Ceremonial exchange -- Congresses.; Gifts -- Indonesia -- Congresses.; Ceremonial exchange -- Indonesia -- Congresses.; Indonesia -- Social life and customs -- Congresses.
Other titles: Report of a Yale-Smithsonian seminar
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Perspectives on the gift in Indonesia and beyond / Paul Michael Taylor; title: Wedding gifts and marital alliances; title: Gifts in economic perspective; title: Power and propitiation: political and religious aspects of gift giving; title: Conclusion and questions for further study.