The gift in antiquity /
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...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2013.
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Series: | Ancient world--comparative histories.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |
Summary: | 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 chronologicallyTakes an explicitly cross-cultural approach to the study of ancient history. |
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Item Description: | Wiley EBA |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781118517895 111851789X 9781118517888 1118517881 |