The Gift in Antiquity

Herausgegeben von Satlow, Michael

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Produktbeschreibung

The Gift in Antiquity presents a collection of 14 original essays that apply French sociologist Marcel Mauss's notion of gift-giving to the study of antiquity.

Features a collection of original essays that cover such wide-ranging topics as vows in the Hebrew Bible; ancient Greek wedding gifts; Hellenistic civic practices; Latin literature; Roman and Jewish burial practices; and Jewish and Christian religious gifts
Organizes essays around theoretical concerns rather than chronologically
Generates unique insights into gift-giving and reciprocity in antiquity
Takes an explicitly cross-cultural approach to the study of ancient history

Produktdetails

• Ancient World: Comparative Histories .
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 179mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 593g
• ISBN-13: 9781444350241
• ISBN-10: 1444350242
• Artikelnr.: 36898133

Autorenporträt

Michael L. Satlow is Professor of Religious Studies and Judaic Studies at Brown University. He is the author of Creating Judaism: History, Tradition, Practice (2006); Jewish Marriage in Antiquity (2001); Rabbinic Rhetorics of Sexuality (1995) and numerous essays on Jews and Judaism in antiquity.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors vii Series Editor's Preface x Preface xii 1
Introduction 1 Michael L. Satlow 2 Ceremonial Gift-Giving: The Lessons of
Anthropology from Mauss and Beyond 12 Marcel Hénaff 3 Alms, Blessings,
Offerings: The Repertoire of Christian Gifts in Early Byzantium 25 Daniel
F. Caner 4 Gift-Giving and Power Relationships in Greek Social Praxis and
Public Discourse 45 Marc Domingo Gygax 5 Fictive Giftship and Fictive
Friendship in Greco-Roman Society 61 Zeba Crook 6 Ovid Negotiates with His
Mistress: Roman Reciprocity from Public to Private 77 Neil Coffee 7 "Can't
Buy Me Love": The Economy of Gifts in Amorous Relations 96 David Konstan 8
Without Patronage: Fetishization, Representation, and the Circulation of
Gift-Texts in the Late Roman Republic 107 Sarah Culpepper Stroup 9 Roses
and Violets for the Ancestors: Gifts to the Dead and Ancient Roman Forms of
Social Exchange 122 Nicola Denzey Lewis 10 Graffiti as Gift: Mortuary and
Devotional Graffiti in the Late Ancient Levant 137 Karen B. Stern 11
Marriage Gifts in Ancient Greece 158 Beate Wagner-Hasel 12 Charity Wounds:
Gifts to the Poor in Early Rabbinic Judaism 173 Gregg E. Gardner 13 Barter
Deal or Friend-Making Gift? A Reconsideration of the Conditional Vow in the
Hebrew Bible 189 Anne Katrine Gudme 14 Neither Mauss, nor Veyne: Peter
Brown's Interpretative Path to the Gift 202 Ilana F. Silber 15 Gifts for
God, Gifts for Rabbis: From Sacrifice to Donation in Rabbinic Tales of Late
Antiquity and Their Dialogue with Early Christian Texts 221 Galit
Hasan-Rokem Index of Subjects and Names 245 Index of Ancient Sources 253