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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The Gift has come to be regarded as a modern classic This inspiring examination of the “gift economy is even more relevant now than when it originally appeared; a brilliantly argued defence of the place of creativity in our increasingly market- orientated society. The Gift takes as its opening premise the idea that a work of art is a gift and not commodity. Hyde proceeds to show how “the commerce of the creative spirit” functions in the lives of artists and within culture as a whole backing up his radical thesis with illuminating examples from economics literature anthropology and psychology- Whether discussing the circulations of gifts in tribal societies the ethics of usury the woman given in marriage or Whitman’s Leaves of Grass this wide-ranging book is as entertaining as it is ground-breaking a masterful analysis of the creative act in all its manifestations. It is in itself an extraordinary gift to all who discover it. (SP)