Gift or commodity
What changes hands in the U.S. garage sale
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7233272 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gretchen M Herrmann (State University of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 910-930 |
| Publication date | 1997-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Ethnologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/ae.1997.24.4.910 |
| OpenAlex | W1994886773 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 67 |
| References cited | 54 |
The U.S. garage sale incorporates elements of both gift and commodity exchange in a dynamic tension, one that complicates traditional characterizations of gift and commodity as oppositional and mutually exclusive. Despite its apparently marketlike mechanisms, much of garage sale exchange also partakes of the character of gift giving. The elasticity in pricing in this home‐based exchange allows sellers to take social relations into account, so that objects that change hands become hybrid varieties of “inalienable commodities
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| Unique citing works | 67 |
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| Citations per year | 2,23 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2025 (30) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 62 |