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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.
In many [[human]] [[societies]], the [[act]] of mutually exchanging [[money]], [[things|goods]], etc. may contribute to social cohesion. Economists have elaborated the [[economics]] of gift-giving into the notion of a gift economy.
By extension the term gift can refer to anything that makes the other [[Happiness|happier]] or less sad, especially as a favor, including [[forgiveness]] and [[kindness]].
==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.
==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.
* 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.
[[Category: General Reference]]
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.
In many [[human]] [[societies]], the [[act]] of mutually exchanging [[money]], [[things|goods]], etc. may contribute to social cohesion. Economists have elaborated the [[economics]] of gift-giving into the notion of a gift economy.
By extension the term gift can refer to anything that makes the other [[Happiness|happier]] or less sad, especially as a favor, including [[forgiveness]] and [[kindness]].
==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.
==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.
* 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.
[[Category: General Reference]]
