Author: Godula, Roza; editor:
Title: The Gift in Culture
Description: Krakow, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, 1993. orig.wrappers. 24x16cm, 183,(10) pp, Published in an edition of 546 copies. Series: Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Prace Etnograficzne, Volume 31.. 10pp photoplates.. Some rubbing. Some light cover soil. Small rear cover label. VG ¶ Contains 11 papers. Includes: J. Krupková "An Attempt at a Typology of Gifts in the Czech Folk Culture"; H. Befu "Cycles of Gifting in Japan"; S. el-Aswad "The Gift & the Image of the Self & the Other"; A.M. Åstrom "The Gift in Genteel Society: Parties, Surprises & Presents among the Gentry in Savolax Province from 1800 to 1840"; A.A: Villaroya "The Ritual Gift & the Valencian Feast"; R. Godula "The Gift in the Polish Harvest Ritual"; G. Kjellman "The Wedding Gift: An Ethnological Study of Gift Economy"; F.R. Demetrio "A Note on Reciprocity in Gift-Giving Among the Filipino"; P.H. Stahl "Les dons en tissu: Exemples sud-est européens"; M. Cernelic " ' Kravak' as a Gift in the Wedding Customs of the Southern Slavs"; M. Svirac "Le gâteau au poivre en tant que don et le problème de sa genèse".

Keywords: Cultural Anthropology, Ritual Gift Gifts, Sociology, Social History, Folk Customs, Ethnography, Ethnology, Comparative,