The Fabric of Gifts
Culture and Politics of Giving and Exchange in Archaic Greece
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7096883 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Beate Wagner-Hasel, Beate Wagner‐hasel (Leibniz University Hannover, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Zea Books (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | University of Nebraska Consortium of Libraries - UNCL (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1102 |
| OpenAlex | W3037249598 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
When the Greek leader Agamemnon took for himself the woman awarded to Achilles as his spoils of battle, the warrior’s resulting anger and outrage nearly cost his side the war. Beyond the woman herself was what she symbolised — a matter of esteem rather than material value. In Archaic Greece the practices of gift giving existed alongside an economy of market relations. The value of gifts and the meanings of exchange in ancient societies are fundamental to the debates of 19th-century economists, to Marcel Mauss’s famous Essai sur le don (1923-4), and to the definition of experiential value by modern philosopher Yanis Varoufakis
Ancient history · Art · Battle · Outrage · Political science · Politics · Value (mathematics · Byzantine Studies and History · History · Law · Religion and Society Interactions · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |