'Anthropology of the Gift' :: Journal Of The Royal Anthropological Inst, Vol 14, Issue v1

Blackwell Synergy - J Royal Anthropological Inst, Vol 14, Issue v1: Table of Contents

In keeping with the spirit of the topic, JRAI are giving us free access to two of the papers that comprise their first themed 'Virtual Issue', as described below...

At the JRAI we're taking advantage of having access to electronic versions of papers to provide you with a different way of using the journal. We're putting together 'themed' issues focusing on topics of historical but also current interest within the discipline as a whole.

Papers are selected from the period 2000-present, based on the copyright owned by Wiley-Blackwell. We will also be adding information on papers relevant to the theme that have appeared in earlier issues of JRAI. Our hope is that this strategy will provide researchers and students with a vital and easily usable resource.

Our first theme relates to the anthropology of the gift, an issue of perennial significance in anthropology, and one that has, if anything, become more of a research focus than ever over the past two decades. The contents of JRAI have reflected such interest, showing how the notion of the gift can be used to illuminate the wide selection of ethnographic cases discussed in our first virtual issue.

Virtual Issue: Anthropology of the Gift Inalienable ethnography: keeping-while-giving and the Trobriand case Mark S. Mosko A free gift makes no friends James Laidlaw How giving sanctifies: The birthday of Thamanya Hsayadaw in Burma Guillaume Rozenberg Impossible Gifts: Bodies, Buddhism and Bioethics in contemporary Sri Lanka Bob Simpson From sugar cane to "swords": Hope and the extensibility of the gift in Fiji Hirokazu Miyazaki The Christianity of Anthropology Fenella Cannell Veinglory: Exploring processes of blood transfer between persons Jacob Copeman On heterochrony: birthday gifts to Stalin, 1949 Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov The charismatic gift Simon Coleman India and the Muslim Punjab: a unified approach to South Asian kinship Anjum Alvi When gifts become commodities: pawnshops, valuables, and shame in Tonga and the Tongan diaspora Ping-Ann Addo and Niko Besnier No access to the full articles from JRAI? Sign up to receive automatic email alerts containing table of contents and links to abstracts each time a new issue is published online. Click here.

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