The Enigma of Gift and Sacrifice

The Enigma of Gift and Sacrifice

by Eric Boynton

186 pages· 2002· ISBN 9780823221660
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What does it mean to give a "gift"? In this timely collection, distinguished anthropologists - Maurice Godelier, George Marcus, Stephen Tyler - and philosophers - Mark C. Taylor, John D. Caputo, Jean-Joseph Goux and Adriaan Peperzak, explore an enigma that has disturbed contemporary philosophers from Marcel Mauss to Jacques Derrida. The essays included in the volume: * Some Things You Give, Some Things You Sell, But Some Things You Must Keep for Yourselves: What Mauss Did Not Say about Sacred Objects by Maurice Godelie. * The Gift and Globalization: A Prolegomenon to the Anthropological Study of Contemporary Finance Capital and Its Mentalities by George Marcus * Capitalizing (on) Gifting by Mark C. Taylor * "Even Steven" or "No Strings Attached" by Stephen Tyler * Mothering, Co-muni-cation and the Gifts of Language by Genevieve Vaughan * The Time of Giving, the Time of Forgiving by John D. Caputo * Seneca against Derrida: Gift and Alterity by Jean-Joseph Goux * Giving by Adriaan Peperzak

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