Sharing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5456570 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T Widlok (0000-0002-4427-413X, University of Cologne, corresponding author) |
| Editors | F Stein (0000-0002-0123-9895), Joel Robbins, Rupert Stasch, M Candea (0000-0001-7260-4194), Andrew Sanchez (0000-0001-8660-7505), Sian Lazar (0000-0002-0056-6333), Hildegard Diemberger (0009-0004-7655-6520) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2398-516X • E-ISSN: 2398-516X |
| Publisher | Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.29164/21sharing |
| OpenAlex | W4243940306 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 13 |
Sharing is a particularly versatile and widespread human practice that features in all domains of life, including religion and politics, family life, and economics. It has a long ethnographic record but it is only recently that it has reached centre stage in social theory and in public awareness. However, not everything that is called ‘sharing’ qualifies as such in a comparative and more technical sense. This entry seeks to distinguish sharing from other transfers, such as alms- and gift-giving, resource pooling, and redistribution. Sharing is here defined as ‘allowing others to access what is valued’, an activity that is not necessarily initiated or desired by the person who gives. Sharing can help humans solve problems of resource distribution, but it may also generate problems that require culturally specific answers: What can or should be shared, with whom and under which conditions? What are the social prerequisites and the social implications of sharing? This entry presents some comparative cases of sharing found across the world and looks at how sharing is also a means to level differences and to prevent the accumulation of wealth and power. It equally considers the current inflational use of the label ‘sharing’ and on-going attempts to establish alternative forms of economic transfers in the so-called ‘sharing economy’
Computer security · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Pooling · Power sharing · Shared resource · Sociology · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Law · Sharing Economy and Platforms
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |