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. • Features a collection of original essays that cover 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 gifts • Organizes essays around theoretical concerns rather than chronologically • Generates unique insights into gift–giving and reciprocity in antiquity • Takes an explicitly cross–cultural approach to the study of ancient history INDICE: Notes on Contributors vii Series Editor’s Preface x Preface xii 1 Introduction 1 Michael L. Satlow 2 Ceremonial Gift–Giving: The Lessons of Anthropology from Mauss and Beyond 12 Marcel Hénaff 3 Alms, Blessings, Offerings: The Repertoire of Christian Gifts in Early Byzantium 25 Daniel F. Caner 4 Gift–Giving and Power Relationships in Greek Social Praxis and Public Discourse 45 Marc Domingo Gygax 5 Fictive Giftship and Fictive Friendship in Greco–Roman Society 61 Zeba Crook 6 Ovid Negotiates with His Mistress: Roman Reciprocity from Public to Private 77 Neil Coffee 7 “Can’t Buy Me Love”: The Economy of Gifts in Amorous Relations 96 David Konstan 8 Without Patronage: Fetishization, Representation, and the Circulation of Gift–Texts in the Late Roman Republic 107 Sarah Culpepper Stroup 9 Roses and Violets for the Ancestors: Gifts to the Dead and Ancient Roman Forms of Social Exchange 122 Nicola Denzey Lewis 10 Graffiti as Gift: Mortuary and Devotional Graffiti in the Late Ancient Levant 137 Karen B. Stern 11 Marriage Gifts in Ancient Greece 158 Beate Wagner–Hasel 12 Charity Wounds: Gifts to the Poor in Early Rabbinic Judaism 173 Gregg E. Gardner 13 Barter Deal or Friend–Making Gift? A Reconsideration of the Conditional Vow in the Hebrew Bible 189 Anne Katrine Gudme 14 Neither Mauss, nor Veyne: Peter Brown’s Interpretative Path to the Gift 202 Ilana F. Silber 15 Gifts for God, Gifts for Rabbis: From Sacrifice to Donation in Rabbinic Tales of Late Antiquity and Their Dialogue with Early Christian Texts 221 Galit Hasan–Rokem Index of Subjects and Names 245 Index of Ancient Sources 253
- ISBN: 978-1-4443-5024-1
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 12/03/2013
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés