The Gift
Book description
Discusses the argument that a work of art is essentially a gift and not a commodity.
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Why read it?
1 author picked The Gift as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Before there was money, people bartered one kind of stuff they had in abundance for another kind that they needed (or wanted). That may be true, but little appreciated in our market-oriented Western worldview, there was once an even older gift economy.
The Gift, among other related topics, explores the gift economy, which characterized the lifeways of many American Indian peoples. Hyde provides the key to understanding many of the stories in our book.
Hunters are portrayed as “visiting” the lodges of beavers, moose, and bear. They come bearing gifts that only humans can create through artifice or cultivation: knives…
From J.'s list on American Indian worldviews and ecological wisdom.
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