Request and the Gift in Religious and Humanitarian Endeavors

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Del i serien Contemporary Anthropology of Religion

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Beskrivning

This collection revisits classical anthropological treatments of the gift by documenting how people may be valued both through the requests they make and through what they give.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-07-25
Mått:148 x 210 x 18 mm
Vikt:390 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
Antal sidor:183
Upplaga:17001
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319542430

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Sociala grupper och identitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Frederick Klaits is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA. He is the author of Death in a Church of Life: Moral Passion during Botswana’s Time of AIDS (2010).

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: Asking in Time.- 2. The Power of the Gift: Killing and Healing in Northwest Zambia.- 3. Seeking the Wounds of the Gift: Recipient Agency in Catholic Charity and Kiganda Patronage.- 4. When God Is a Moral Accountant: Requests and Dilemmas of Accountability in U.S. Medical Relief in Madagascar.- 5. How Asking and Giving Beget Distrust in Christian Child Sponsorship.- 6. Funding Meaning on Jewish Service Trips to Post-Katrina New Orleans.- 7. Universal Dignity: Fundraising, Zakat, and Spiritual Exchange.