The Request and the Gift in Religious and Humanitarian Endeavors

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. Many humanitarian practitioners, the authors propose, regard giving to those in need as the epitome of moral action but ar...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Klaits, Frederick. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
Subjects:
Social sciences.
Religion and sociology.
Ethnology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
ISBN: 9783319542447
Physical Description: VII, 183 p. 4 illus. online resource.

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505 0 |a 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. 
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