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A '''gift''' is the transfer of something without the [[expectation]] of receiving something in return. Although gift-giving might involve an expectation of [[reciprocity]], a gift is something given freely.

A '''gift''' is the transfer of something without the [[expectation]] of receiving something in return. Although gift-giving might involve an expectation of [[reciprocity]], a gift is something given freely.

==Presentation==

==Presentation==

When [[material]] [[Artifacts|objects]] are given as gifts, in many [[cultures]] they are [[traditionally]] packaged in some [[manner]]. For example, in Western culture, gifts are often wrapped in wrapping paper and accompanied by a gift note which may note the occasion, the recipient's name, and the giver's name. In Chinese culture, red wrapping connotes luck.

When [[material]] [[Artifacts|objects]] are given as gifts, in many [[cultures]] they are [[traditionally]] packaged in some [[manner]]. For example, in Western culture, gifts are often wrapped in wrapping paper and accompanied by a gift note which may note the occasion, the recipient's name, and the giver's name. In Chinese culture, red wrapping connotes luck.

==Further reading==

* Marcel Mauss and W.D. Halls, Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies, W. W. Norton, 2000, trade paperback, ISBN 0-393-32043-X

 

* Lewis Hyde: The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property, 1983 (ISBN 0-394-71519-5), especially part I, "A Theory of Gifts", part of which was originally published as "The Gift Must Always Move" in Co-Evolution Quarterly No. 35, Fall 1982.

==See also==

* Jean-Luc Marion translated by Jeffrey L. Kosky, "Being Given: Toward a Phenomenology of Giveness", Stanford University Press, 2002 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 0-8047-3410-0.

*'''''[[Spiritual Gifts]]'''''

 

concerned with the result of giving. That is a [[limitation]] on the giving itself,

and neither the giver nor the [[receiver]] would have the gift. [[Trust]] is an

essential part of giving; in [[fact]], it is the part that makes [[sharing]] possible, the

part that guarantees the giver will not lose, but only gain. Who gives a gift

and then remains with it, to be sure it is used as the giver deems

appropriate? Such is not giving but [[imprisoning]]. - [[ACIM Manual for Teachers - Section 6|ACIM Manual for Teachers]]

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