Gift Giving and the ‘Embedded’ Economy in the Ancient World

Abstract

Karl Bucher and the birth of the theory of gift-giving / Beate Wagner Hasel -- Is there such a thing as a gift economy? / Marcel Henaff -- The economics of the gift / David Reinstein -- The ration of gift-giving in Homeric poems / Lucio Bertelli -- Like bait on a hook : ethics, etics and emics of gift-exchange in the Roman world / Koenraad Verboven -- Giving to the poor in Ancient Greece : a form of social aid? / Lucia Cecchet -- Euergetism and the gift / Sabien Colpaert -- From Pagan to Christian euergetism / Lellia Cracco Ruggini -- The peculium : a legal device for donations to personae alieno iuri subiectae? / Andreas M. Fleckner -- Limiting generosity : conditions and restrictions on Roman donations / Marta Garcia Morcillo -- Metal hoards as ritual gift : circulation, collection and alienation of bronze artefacts in late Bronze Age Europe / Maja Gori -- Value for money : pleasing the gods and impressing mortals in the archaic and early classical age / Irene Berti -- Markets and tithes in Roman Palestine / Michael L. Satlow -- Christian gift and gift exchange from late antiquity to the early Middle Ages / Luigi Canetti -- Between archaic market and gift exchange : the role of silver in the embedded economies of the Ancient Near East during the Bronze Age / Luca Peyronel -- Philosophy as Leitourgia : Sophists, fees, and the civic role of paideia / Thomas Blank -- Exchange and the saints : gift-giving and the commerce of relics / Filippo Carla.

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