Returning The Gift

Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0816514860

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An unprecedented gathering of more than 300 Native writers was held in Norman, Oklahoma, in 1992. The Returning the Gift Festival brought more Native writers together in one place than at any other time in history. "Returning the Gift," observes co-organizer Joseph Bruchac, "both demonstrated and validated our literature and our devotion to it, not just to the public, but to ourselves." In compiling this volume, Bruchac invited every writer who attended the festival to submit new, unpublished work; he then selected the best of the more than 200 submissions to create a collection that includes established writers like Duane Niatum, Simon Ortiz, Lance Henson, Elizabeth Woody, Linda Hogan, and Jeanette Armstrong, and also introduces such lesser-known or new voices as Tracy Bonneau, Jeanetta Calhoun, Kim Blaeser, and Chris Fleet. The anthology includes works from every corner of the continent, representing a wide range of tribal affiliations, languages, and cultures. By taking their peoples' literature back to them in the form of stories and songs, these writers see themselves as returning the gift of storytelling, culture, and continuance to the source from which it came. In addition to contributions by 92 writers are two introductory chapters: Joseph Bruchac comments on the current state of Native literature and the significance of the festival, and Geary Hobson traces the evolution of the event itself.

Author : Rebecca Colesworthy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198778585

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What is a gift? What do gifts mean and do? Drawing on Marcel Mauss's 1925 essay, this volume studies novels, autobiographical texts, aesthetic treatises, and political writings by Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Gertrude Stein, and H.D to explore the idea of the gift in Modernist literature.

Author : Rebecca Colesworthy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191084348

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From debates about reparations to the rise of the welfare state, the decades following World War I saw a widespread turn across disciplines to questions about the nature and role of gifts: What is a gift? What do gifts mean and do? Which individuals and institutions have the authority to give? Marshalling wide-ranging interdisciplinary research, Returning the Gift argues that these questions centrally shaped literary modernism. The book begins by revisiting the locus classicus of twentieth-century gift theory — the French sociologist Marcel Mauss's 1925 essay, The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies. His title notwithstanding, the gift Mauss envisions is not primitive or pre-capitalist, but rather a distinctively modern phenomenon. Subsequent chapters offer sustained, nuanced readings of novels and nonfiction by Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Gertrude Stein, and H.D. from the 1920s to 1940s, underscoring the ways their writing is illuminated by contemporaneous developments in the social sciences, economics, and politics, while also making a case for their unique contributions to broader debates about gifts. Not only do these writers insist that literature is a special kind of gift, but they also pose challenges to the gift's feminization in the work of both their Victorian forebears and contemporary male theorists. Each of these writers uses tropes and narratives of giving — of hospitality, sympathy, reciprocity, charity, genius, and kinship — to imagine more egalitarian social possibilities under the conditions of the capitalist present. The language of the gift is not, as we might expect, a mark of hostility to the market so much as a means of giving form to the 'society' in market society — of representing everyday experiences of exchange that the myth of the free market works, even now, to render unthinkable.

Author : Robin Wall Kimmerer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0141997621

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Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer Pdf

"Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering moss is a mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses. In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists alike to an understanding of how mosses live and how their lives are intertwined with the lives of countless other beings. Kimmerer explains the biology of mosses clearly and artfully, while at the same time reflecting on what these fascinating organisms have to teach us. Drawing on her experiences as a scientist, a mother, and a Native American, Kimmerer explains the stories of mosses in scientific terms as well as in the framework of indigenous ways of knowing. In her book, the natural history and cultural relationships of mosses become a powerful metaphor for ways of living in the world"--Publisher's description.

Author : Holly Virden,Michelle McKinney Hammond
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0785263292

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If Singleness Is a Gift, What's the Return Policy? by Holly Virden,Michelle McKinney Hammond Pdf

This down-to-earth, often humorous guide redirects singles from putting their lives on hold and waiting for a mate to living each day to the fullest now.

Author : O. Henry
Publisher : Amila Jay
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9783986779214

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The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry Pdf

"The Gift of the Magi" is a short story by O. Henry first published in 1905. The story tells of a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. As a sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving, it has been popular for adaptation, especially for presentation at Christmas time.

Author : Marianne Williamson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780061835766

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The Gift of Change by Marianne Williamson Pdf

Bestselling author of Return to Love and Law of Divine Compensation, Marianne Williamson shows people how to live without fear or worry in The Gift of Change. The time in which we now live is more difficult and stressful than people are willing to admit. We live with an abiding sense of collective anxiety. Williamson shows how we are paralyzed in our current state of fear and anger because we are not facing and dealing with the true causes of our anxieties and fears. Williamson reveals that fear and worry do not need to be the only tools in our tool box for dealing with problems in the world. As we learn to trust God and the love that surrounds us and guides us, we will see that what causes us pain is an opportunity for growth, healing, and miracles that can transform us and our world. Williamson delivers hope and healing as she illuminates ten basic changes that each of us can make as we learn to view the world through the eyes of love instead of fear.

Author : Harry Liebersohn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139495493

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The Return of the Gift by Harry Liebersohn Pdf

This book is a history of European interpretations of the gift from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Reciprocal gift exchange, pervasive in traditional European society, disappeared from the discourse of nineteenth-century social theory only to return as a major theme in twentieth-century anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy and literary studies. Modern anthropologists encountered gift exchange in Oceania and the Pacific Northwest and returned the idea to European social thought; Marcel Mauss synthesized their insights with his own readings from remote times and places in his famous 1925 essay on the gift, the starting-point for subsequent discussion. The Return of the Gift demonstrates how European intellectual history can gain fresh significance from global contexts.

Author : Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Publisher : Portage & Main Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781553793816

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The Gift Is in the Making by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Pdf

The Gift Is in the Making retells previously published Anishinaabeg stories, bringing to life Anishinaabeg values and teachings for a new generation. Readers are immersed in a world where all genders are respected, the tiniest being has influence in the world, and unconditional love binds families and communities to each other and to their homeland. Sprinkled with gentle humour and the Anishinaabe language, this collection of stories speaks to children and adults alike, and reminds us of the timelessness of stories that touch the heart. Also available as an audiobook narrated by Tiffany Ayalik. Find it through your favourite audio retailer!

Author : Hilda Doolittle
Publisher : Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Gift by Hilda Doolittle Pdf

Author : Marcel Mauss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136896842

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The Gift by Marcel Mauss Pdf

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Gavin De Becker
Publisher : Dell
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780307833693

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Protecting the Gift by Gavin De Becker Pdf

Safety skills for children outside the home Warning signs of sexual abuse How to screen baby-sitters and choose schools Strategies for keeping teenagers safe from violence All parents face the same challenges when it comes to their children's safety: whom to trust, whom to distrust, what to believe, what to doubt, what to fear, and what not to fear. In this empowering book, Gavin de Becker, the nation's leading expert on predicting violent behavior and author of the monumental bestseller The Gift of Fear, offers practical new steps to enhance children's safety at every age level, giving you the tools you need to allow your kids freedom without losing sleep yourself. With daring and compassion, he shatters the widely held myths about danger and safety and helps parents find some certainty about life's highest-stakes questions: How can I know a baby-sitter won't turn out to be someone who harms my child? (see page 103) What should I ask child-care professionals when I interview them? (see page 137) What's the best way to prepare my child for walking to school alone? (see page 91) How can my child be safer at school? (see page 175) How can I spot sexual predators? (see page 148) What should I do if my child is lost in public? (see page 86) How can I teach my child about risk without causing too much fear? (see page 98) What must my teenage daughter know in order to be safe? (see page 191) What must my teenage son know in order to be safe? (see page 218) And finally, in the face of all these questions, how can I reduce the worrying? (see page 56)

Author : T. M. Scanlon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674004238

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What We Owe to Each Other by T. M. Scanlon Pdf

How do we judge whether an action is morally right or wrong? If an action is wrong, what reason does that give us not to do it? Why should we give such reasons priority over our other concerns and values? In this book, T. M. Scanlon offers new answers to these questions, as they apply to the central part of morality that concerns what we owe to each other. According to his contractualist view, thinking about right and wrong is thinking about what we do in terms that could be justified to others and that they could not reasonably reject. He shows how the special authority of conclusions about right and wrong arises from the value of being related to others in this way, and he shows how familiar moral ideas such as fairness and responsibility can be understood through their role in this process of mutual justification and criticism. Scanlon bases his contractualism on a broader account of reasons, value, and individual well-being that challenges standard views about these crucial notions. He argues that desires do not provide us with reasons, that states of affairs are not the primary bearers of value, and that well-being is not as important for rational decision-making as it is commonly held to be. Scanlon is a pluralist about both moral and non-moral values. He argues that, taking this plurality of values into account, contractualism allows for most of the variability in moral requirements that relativists have claimed, while still accounting for the full force of our judgments of right and wrong.

Author : Philip Van Doren Stern
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476778860

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The Greatest Gift by Philip Van Doren Stern Pdf

George Pratt, depressed and contemplating suicide, is allowed to see what his community would have been like if he had never been born, in a hardcover reissue of the story that inspired the film It's a Wonderful Life. 100,000 first printing.

Author : Perry Stevens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0975430742

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I'd Like To Return This Gift by Perry Stevens Pdf