Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… difficult, especially in colonial contexts where different cultural values were often at stake. Practices > Politics & Society Objects > Furniture & Interior decoration Concepts > Social interaction Keywords Charity Empire Friendship Gift … contexts and customs confused even further the unclear rules about good and bad gifts. Gifting was ubiquitous in Indian society and Britons exploited this both to cement ties with princes and to advance their own personal wealth (money that … following the anthropologist Marcel Mauss, have seen the gift as under pressure from eighteenth century commercial society which made exchange into a monetised transaction. Karl Polanyi suggested a 'great transformation', from …
Charity | Empire | Friendship | Gift | Hospitality | Reciprocity | Religion
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