The Gift
Subtitle: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property
By: Lewis Hyde.
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Gifts; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Economic anthropology; Art and society
First sentence: 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.
Description: Discusses the argument that a work of art is essentially a gift and not a commodity.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [283]-287.
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: xi; label: I. A Theory of Gifts; label: One
title: Some Food We Could Not Eat
pagenum: 3; label: Two
title: The Bones of the Dead
pagenum: 25; label: Three
title: The Labor of Gratitude
pagenum: 40; label: Four
title: The Bond
pagenum: 56; label: Five
title: The Gift of Community
pagenum: 74; label: Six
title: A Female Property
pagenum: 93; label: Seven
title: Usury: A History of Gift Exchange
pagenum: 109; label: II . Two Experiments in Gift Aesthetics; label: Eight
title: The Commerce of the Creative Spirit
pagenum: 143; label: Nine
title: A Draft of Whitman
pagenum: 160; label: Ten
title: Ezra Pound and the Face of Vegetable Money
pagenum: 216; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 273; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 283; title: Notes
pagenum: 289; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 311; title: Index
pagenum: 313