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Author : Yunxiang Yan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804726957
In this study, the author examines the gift-giving and related social activities that pervade daily life in China, focusing on routine activities.
Author : Cami Walker
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780786745999
At age thirty-five, Cami Walker was burdened by a battle with multiple sclerosis, a chronic neurological condition that made it difficult for her to walk, work, or enjoy her life. Seeking a remedy for her depression after being hospitalized, she received an uncommon prescription from an African medicine woman: Give to others for 29 days. 29 Gifts is the insightful story of the author's life change as she embraces and reflects on the naturally reciprocal process of giving and receiving. Many of Walker's gifts were simple —a phone call, spare change, a Kleenex. Yet the acts were transformative. By Day 29, not only had Walker's health and happiness improved, but she had created a worldwide giving movement. The book also includes personal essays from others whose lives changed for the better by giving, plus pages for the reader to record their own journey. More than a memoir, 29 Gifts offers inspiring lessons on how a simple daily practice of altruism can dramatically alter your outlook on the world.
Author : Yunxiang Yan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804764117
For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as an ordinary farmer. In 1989, he returned to the village as an anthropologist to begin the unparalleled span of eleven years’ fieldwork that has resulted in this book—a comprehensive, vivid, and nuanced account of family change and the transformation of private life in rural China from 1949 to 1999. The author’s focus on the personal and the emotional sets this book apart from most studies of the Chinese family. Yan explores private lives to examine areas of family life that have been largely overlooked, such as emotion, desire, intimacy, privacy, conjugality, and individuality. He concludes that the past five decades have witnessed a dual transformation of private life: the rise of the private family, within which the private lives of individual women and men are thriving.
Author : C. Fred Blake
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824860103
For a thousand years across the length and breadth of China and beyond, people have burned paper replicas of valuable things—most often money—for the spirits of deceased family members, ancestors, and myriads of demons and divinities. Although frequently denigrated as wasteful and vulgar and at times prohibited by governing elites, today this venerable custom is as popular as ever. Burning Money explores the cultural logic of this common practice while addressing larger anthropological questions concerning the nature of value. The heart of the work integrates Chinese and Western thought and analytics to develop a theoretical framework that the author calls a “materialist aesthetics.” This includes consideration of how the burning of paper money meshes with other customs in China and around the world. The work examines the custom in contemporary everyday life, its origins in folklore and history, as well as its role in common rituals, in the social formations of dynastic and modern times, and as a “sacrifice” in the act of consecrating the paper money before burning it. Here the author suggests a great divide between the modern means of cultural reproduction through ideology and reification, with its emphasis on nature and realism, and previous pre-capitalist means through ritual and mystification, with its emphasis on authenticity. The final chapters consider how the burning money custom has survived its encounter with the modern global system and internet technology. Innovative and original in its interpretation of a common ritual in Chinese popular religion, Burning Money will be welcomed by scholars and students of Chinese religion as well as comparative religion specialists and anthropologists interested in contemporary social theory.
Author : Marcel Mauss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136896842
First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501713040
An elaborate and pervasive set of practices, called guanxi, underlies everyday social relationships in contemporary China. Obtaining and changing job assignments, buying certain foods and consumer items, getting into good hospitals, buying train tickets, obtaining housing, even doing business—all such tasks call for the skillful and strategic giving of gifts and cultivating of obligation, indebtedness, and reciprocity. Mayfair Mei-hui Yang's close scrutiny of this phenomenon serves as a window to view facets of a much broader and more complex cultural, historical, and political formation. Using rich and varied ethnographic examples of guanxi stemming from her fieldwork in China in the 1980s and 1990s, the author shows how this "gift economy" operates in the larger context of the socialist state redistributive economy.
Author : Lewis Hyde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : IND:30000078376161
Starting with the premise that the work of art is a gift and not a commodity, this revolutionary book ranges across anthropology, literature, economics, and psychology to show how the 'commerce of the creative spirit' functions in the lives of artists and in culture as a whole.
Author : Patricia Polacco
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780698135215
Beloved author-illustrator Patricia Polacco’s holiday story is a wonderful ode to the magic of family, Christmas, and giving the right kind of gifts—gifts filled with love. Richie and Trisha want to buy Christmas gifts for their family, but they don't have enough money. Enter Kay Lamity, a new housekeeper . . . but is that all she is? She comes into their lives like a whirlwind, brimming with positive energy and a can-do attitude. Kay not only straightens them out when it comes to whether or not Santa Claus is real, she teaches them something about gifts: the just-good-enough kind that come from the pocketbook and the unforgettable kind that come from the heart. Because of Kay, Trisha and Richie—and the family—have a Christmas morning they will never forget. Celebrating the joy of homemade gifts, Patricia Polacco introduces readers to a new character who is truly a force of nature in this story reminiscent of Christmas Tapestry and An Orange for Frankie. This is a magical Christmas story the author swears is true, right down to the sleigh tracks on the farmhouse roof!
Author : Lars Hermanson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004401211
In this book Lars Hermanson discusses how religious beliefs and norms steered attitudes to friendship and love, and how these ways of thinking also affected people’s social identity and political action behaviour in medieval Northern Europe, c. 1000-1200.
Author : Robyn Horner
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780823221219
At once rigorous, insightful, and accessible.. the most thorough study yet available on the phenomenological treatment of God as gift in Marion and Derrida. Invaluable reading for those concerned with the theological promise of contemporary Continental philosophy.-Thomas A. Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780152051235
A darkly compelling fantasy about a world in which each person has a magical, dangerous gift.
Author : Sarah Lamb
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520935266
This rich ethnography explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village. Sarah Lamb focuses on how villagers' visions of aging are tied to the making and unmaking of gendered selves and social relations over a lifetime. Lamb uses a focus on age as a means not only to open up new ways of thinking about South Asian social life, but also to contribute to contemporary theories of gender, the body, and culture, which have been hampered, the book argues, by a static focus on youth. Lamb's own experiences in the village are an integral part of her book and ably convey the cultural particularities of rural Bengali life and Bengali notions of modernity. In exploring ideals of family life and the intricate interrelationships between and within generations, she enables us to understand how people in the village construct, and deconstruct, their lives. At the same time her study extends beyond India to contemporary attitudes about aging in the United States. This accessible and engaging book is about deeply human issues and will appeal not only to specialists in South Asian culture, but to anyone interested in families, aging, gender, religion, and the body.
Author : Francis J. Moloney, S.D.B.
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781587684463
A theological study on the Gospel of John that is strongly determined by contemporary biblical scholarship.
Author : Lewis Hyde
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780307279507
Examines the concept of gifts in anthropological terms and uses this approach to analyze the situation of creative artists and their gifts to society.
Author : Frank N. Pieke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351761673
This title was first published in 2002. This two volume set collects in a conveniently accessible form the most influential articles by leading authorities in the study of China. It provides an international reference work, combined with an authoritative introduction by the editor.