The Gift in Antiquity

ML Satlow (Autor)

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272 Seiten

2013
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Hersteller)
9781118517895 (ISBN)

Infos

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. Covers 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 giftsOrganizes essays around theoretical concerns rather than chronologically Takes an explicitly cross-cultural approach to the study of ancient history

Autor

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.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.8.2013
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 250 mm
• Gewicht: 349 g
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• ISBN-13: 9781118517895 / 9781118517895
• Zustand: Neuware