Gift-Giving in Japan
Katherine Rupp · 2003
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"Gift-giving is extremely important in Japanese society, not only at personal and household levels, but at the national and macroeconomic levels as well. This book is the first in English to document the extraordinary scale, complexity, and variation of giving in contemporary Japan." "Recent anthropological interest in drawing a strong contrast between commodities and gifts both reflects and reinforces the conception of the gift as part of the giver and the related distinction between the realm of the gift and the realm of the marketplace. The author argues that Japanese practices of giving and receiving challenge assumptions related to this idea of the gift."--Jacket.
Book details
- Year
- 2003
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Editions
- 2
- Pages
- 264
- ISBN
- 9780804747035
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