Towards a Comparative Anthropology of the Buddhist Gift (and Other Transfers)
The aim of this essay is threefold. I would like first to propose a more refined choice of analytical vocabulary for the study of Buddhist giving and related practices, by taking into consideration recent contributions by Testart and F. Weber, who have forcefully argued that the Maussian category of...
| Subtitles: | Special Issue: Comparative anthropology of Buddhist transactions: moving beyond the Maussian terminology of the "gift." |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2015]
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| In: |
Religion compass
Year: 2015, Volume: 9, Issue: 11, Pages: 352-385 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Asia
/ Buddhism
/ Gift
/ Exchange
/ Reciprocity
/ Cultural anthropology
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism KBM Asia |
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