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The Gift in Antiquity

Part of the Ancient World: Comparative Histories series
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The Gift in Antiquity presents a collection of 14 original essays that apply French sociologist Marcel Mauss's notion of gift-giving to the study of antiquity.

Covers such wide-ranging topics as vows in the Hebrew Bible; ancient Greek wedding gifts; Hellenistic civic practices; Latin literature; Roman and Jewish burial practices; and Jewish and Christian religious giftsOrganizes essays around theoretical concerns rather than chronologically Takes an explicitly cross-cultural approach to the study of ancient history

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John Wiley & Sons Inc
111851789X / 9781118517895
Other digital
394
16/08/2013
United States
272 pages
150 x 250 mm, 349 grams
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