“But in a Dream of Friendship”: Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens, the Gift, and the Moral Economy of Friendship

2020 ◽  
pp. 61-78
Author(s):  
John Mischo
Keyword(s):  
Moral Economy ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Timon Of Athens

The Dangers of the Gift Master

2018 ◽  
pp. 27-66
Author(s):  
Charlene Makley
Keyword(s):  
Moral Economy ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
The West ◽  
Beijing Olympics ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Local Officials ◽  
Basic Parameters ◽  
Anthropological Approach ◽  
The Village ◽  
Engineering Projects

This chapter lays out the basic parameters and stakes of development encounters in the Tibetan region of Rebgong through the story of the author’s expulsion from the village household in which she was living in 2008. The narrative attributes those events to the polluted offering scarves she had inadvertently brought into the home, as local officials anxiously anticipated Tibetan unrest ahead of the Beijing Olympics. The author uses that account to lay out her approach to the politics of personhood and presence among Rebgong Tibetans. She argues that personhood for them is grounded in the moral economy of ambivalently charged hospitality relations (“the battle for fortune”) amidst their intensifying fears of the threat posed to households, villages, and monasteries by state-sponsored market logics and social engineering projects. The Tibetan offering scarf, construed as both a sign and a material medium of exchange, serves to illustrate a linguistic anthropological approach to media and the intersubjective dynamics of meaning, agency and efficacy. The chapter thereby considers the consequences throughout the valley of the arrival of powerful outsiders bearing gifts under the auspices of an increasingly authoritarian capitalism unleashed in the Develop the West campaign.

scholarly journals “Talk of contracts”: Gift-giving vs. Reciprocity in James Joyce’s “A Mother”

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-39
Author(s):  
Camelia Raghinaru
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Moral Economy ◽  
Gift Giving ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Good Starting Point ◽  
Zero Sum ◽  
The Ideal

Abstract This essay measures the extent to which gift-giving fails in an economy of reciprocity. Reading James Joyce’s story “A Mother” in terms of Derrida’s notion of the gift as “absolute loss,” I consider the implications of an economy of loss for Joyce’s notion of sacrifice. Thus, I argue that the absence of an economy of sacrifice integrating “absolute loss” engenders the zero-sum game at the heart of Dubliners. I depart from other readings of the short story in the context of an economy based on the ideal of balanced reciprocity, since these versions deny the pure gratuity of gift in its connotations of sacrifice and loss. While such theories form a good starting point for analyzing the “moral economy” of Dubliners, they tend to overlook the fact that the only means to counteract the paralysis resulting from reciprocity is through the suspension of the economy of exchange.

Production of New and Revised A.A.V.S.O. Charts

1979 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 368
Author(s):  
Clinton B. Ford
Keyword(s):  
Variable Star ◽  
Standard Form ◽  
Original Data ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Standard Format ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
The Gift ◽  
The University

A “new charts program” for the Americal Association of Variable Star Observers was instigated in 1966 via the gift to the Association of the complete variable star observing records, charts, photographs, etc. of the late Prof. Charles P. Olivier of the University of Pennsylvania (USA). Adequate material covering about 60 variables, not previously charted by the AAVSO, was included in this original data, and was suitably charted in reproducible standard format.Since 1966, much additional information has been assembled from other sources, three Catalogs have been issued which list the new or revised charts produced, and which specify how copies of same may be obtained. The latest such Catalog is dated June 1978, and lists 670 different charts covering a total of 611 variables none of which was charted in reproducible standard form previous to 1966.

The Gift: Cochlear Implant Brings A Year of Change

ASHA Leader ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 6-9
Author(s):  
Susan Boswell
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implant ◽  
The Gift

The Return of the Gift

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Liebersohn
Keyword(s):  
The Gift
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