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Satlow, Michael
2013, 2013., 2013-02-12, 2013-02-22, Letnik: 16eBook
The Gift in Antiquitypresents a collection of 14 original essays that apply French sociologist Marcel Mauss’s notion of gift-giving to the study of antiquity.Covers 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 giftsOrganizes essays around theoretical concerns rather than chronologicallyTakes an explicitly cross-cultural approach to the study of ancient history
