Selfish Gifts
Author: Lisa McNee
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2000-06-08
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780791445877
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Investigates the politics and poetics of women's gendered identity in West Africa.
Author: Lisa McNee
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2000-06-08
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780791445877
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Investigates the politics and poetics of women's gendered identity in West Africa.
Author: Alison V. Scott
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780838640821
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Selfish Gifts examines how early modern clients moved quickly and strategically to assimilate the language of competition and equality, characteristic of an emerging market economy, within their existing discourses of gift exchange, in order to maximize the rewards they might induce from an increasingly diverse group of patrons."--Jacket.
Author: Lisa McNee
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2000-06-01
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0791492583
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of the 2001 Joel Gregory Prize, presented by the Canadian Association of African Studies Offering Senegalese women's autobiographical discourses as an original contribution to the critical debate about identity and self-representation, Lisa McNee asks how Senegalese women represent themselves, rather than asking who has the right to represent them. Selfish Gifts describes and analyzes the public spaces for verbal self-representation that the Wolof form of panegyric (taasu) and written autobiographies offer to women. In contrasting performances of taasu to autobiographical works written in French, McNee addresses important issues in literary criticism, folklore studies, and anthropology, and develops a theory of an African aesthetic of self-representation.
Author: Janet E. Smith
Publisher: Emmaus Academic
Published: 2018-06-29
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1947792725
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Janet E. Smith has been among the world’s preeminent voices in the study of the issues raised by Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical letter Humanae vitae. Self-Gift: Essays on Humanae Vitae and the Thought of John Paul II presents Smith’s critical collection of essays on the vocation of marriage, human sexuality, contraception, and more. Her groundbreaking scholarship touches on all the areas implicated in Humanae vitae: from natural family planning to parenthood and natural law to personalism. This collection not only includes Smith’s English translation of the encyclical from the original Latin text, but also helpful background on the development and release of this authoritative magisterial document. With a particular emphasis on the personalist and Thomistic philosophy of Pope St. John Paul II and how it illuminates the two-millennia tradition of Catholic teaching on human sexuality, Self-Gift delivers crucial insight into the Creator’s plan for human sexuality and our full flourishing in Christ.
Author: Felicity Heal
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0199542953
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study considers the nature of gift-giving in early-modern England - looking at what gifts were, how they were offered and received, and what did they mean politically under the different monarchs of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Author: Amy A
Publisher:
Published: 2019-09-17
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9781693724947
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →100 pages of high quality paper (50 sheets)It can be used as a journal, notebook or just a composition book6" x 9" Paperback notebook, soft matte cover
Author: Mark Osteen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1136481435
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Question of the Gift is the first collection of new interdisciplinary essays on the gift. Bringing together scholars from a variety of fields, including anthropology, literary criticism, economics, philosophy and classics, it provides new paradigms and poses new questions concerning the theory and practice of gift exchange. In addressing these questions, contributors not only challenge the conventions of their fields, but also combine ideas and methods from both the social sciences and humanities to forge innovative ways of confronting this universal phenomenon.
Author: Susan Pease Gadoua
Publisher: Seal Press
Published: 2014-09-23
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 158005546X
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