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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Gift Giving"”.
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Gift-giving of toys from adults to children.
… study is the consumer behaviour habits of adults giving of toys to children aged 11 and under as gifts. It is borne out of a need to understand why adults buy gifts for children adding to the issues on consumption practices and materialism. It begins by discussing the issues of researching with …
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RHETORICAL STRATEGIES AND POLITICAL GIFT GIVING IN THE ORINOCO DELTA
… sign systems (in this case language and material gifts) interact, contradict, and support each other. In sum, this dissertation uses the advances of discourse-centered approaches to culture and the anthropological theories of exchange to understand how language and gift giving has shaped history …
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Presents of Mind: Using Experience Design to Support Online Gift Giving
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Counterfeit Money or Genuine Gift? Gift, Giving, and Salvation in the Gospel of John
This dissertation studies the concept of gift in the Gospel of John, especially as it relates to God's gift of salvation to humanity. Chapter 1 defines the problem of the gift both for New Testament studies as well as philosophy and sociology. In light of the discussion of the gift historically and …
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Does a gift in a captive service make me feel better? Examining gift giving in uncertain conditions that influence emotions and firm performance.
… during the secondary appraisal process through gift giving. Negative consumer emotions can be affected by uncertainties from captive services due to the limitation of consumer power in decision making, control in how decisions are being made, and voicing concerns. Service uncertainties can be …
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Enchanted welfare : Islamic imaginary and giving to strangers in Turkey
… mechanisms but through the theoretical lens of gift-giving. It argues that contractual relations of the market or the anonymity of redistribution fall short of acknowledging the personal, asymmetrical and religious formation of this field. The welfare regime in Turkey is currently undergoing …
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Tvarumas Japonijos dovanų kultūroje /
This bachelor thesis focuses on the culture of gift-giving and sustainable gift consumption in Japan. The aim of the thesis is to find out whether ideas of sustainability are implemented in the Japanese gift culture. The objectives of the thesis are: 1) to present the origins of gift culture, its …
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Bloody geographies: relating, connecting, giving and caring in blood donation and transfusion
… qualitative research, the senses of connection, giving, care, and relatedness felt by blood donors and recipients, given the institutional setting of therapeutic blood exchange in the UK. In it, I use a multi-sited auto-ethnographic approach to examine five blood donor-/recipient-participant …
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Nyau Philosophy: Contemporary Art and the Problematic of the Gift – a Panegyric
Societies in Southern Africa remain largely gift economies, their art conceived as an infrastructure within everyday life, and yet art from the region continues to be read within the values of mimetic art where art is conceived as part of the superstructure of restricted Western economic and social …
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The Material of Polytheism in Archaic Greece: Understanding Greek Religion Through Patterns of Dedicatory Practice and Thought, ca.750–480 BCE
This thesis is an investigation of gift-giving in religious contexts in archaic Greece, in which I determine patterns of dedicatory practice across Greece, and then use these patterns as a window onto the mindset of ancient worshippers in relation to their many gods. I use new materialist …
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Sexual conflict and the evolution of nuptial feeding
Males providing females with gifts in order to mate is not a novel occurrence. Indeed, depending on the taxonomic system, males may provide gifts ranging from dead insects, to nutritious ejaculates to even subjecting themselves to cannibalistic feeding. Interestingly, while the burden of the costs …
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“IN STRANGER TIDES”: INTER-CULTURAL CONTACTS, CONTRACTS AND LEGALITIES IN EARLY MODERN MARITIME SOUTHEAST ASIA (1700-1850)
… while the third section studies a series of gift giving rituals. How the centuries of inter-cultural commercial negotiations produced a fluid yet mutually intelligible, composite “juridical field” of textual replications, legal repertoires, repetitive diplomatic gestures and conducts remain …
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Theorizing prayer in Anglo-Saxon England: Bede and Ælfric
… was inflected by Germanic assumptions about gift-giving and lordship and that prayer, in turn, shaped the Anglo-Saxons’ perception of the self and its relation with the community. Modern studies of early prayer tend to focus on forms of devotion that replicate modern ideals of the self. In …
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Cracked commodities, cursed gifts: Transacting women and conceptualizing exchange in early modern England
… early modern England. The symbolic economies of gift and commodity--in social practice and as constructed in treatises and the theater--provided the early modern English with forms for mediating social, sexual, and commercial relations during a period of radical change: the rise of commodity …
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Captatio in law, life and literature : a study of the topos of inheritance-hunting in the context of Roman testamentary legislation and social practice
… by which this is shown to be achieved include gift-giving, salutatio, sexual favours, flattery etc. Roman literature suggests that this practice often took place within the exchange network of amicitia. This thesis examines captatio, as presented in the Latin literature of the early Empire, in …
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Connectibles : tangible social networking
… and object theory, which together suggest that gifts act as physical symbols and constructors of social relationships. The Connectibles system leverages these gift-giving practices, presenting users with customizable gift objects ("connectibles") that they exchange with one another. These …
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The Self and the Gift in Japan: A Cognitive View of Ritualized Gift Exchange in Contemporary Western Japan
… The role of the giver or the recever of a gift is composed of a set of obligations/rights between the self and others. However, when the individual attempts to do his/her role performance for others, he/she always has to recognize the deficiency of the exact prescription of his/her role …
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The relevance of the doctrine of collation in the modern-day South African law of succession
The practice of transferring inter vivos gifts and advances from parents to their children is deeply embedded in societal behaviour. This practice plays a significant role in modern family dynamics, often reinforcing the bond and commitment between parents and their children. Parents frequently …
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The assimilation of in-laws: the impact of newcomers on the structuration of families
… life, holiday celebrations, religious practice, gift-giving, and interpersonal interactions. Families rarely communicated their routines directly. Instead they continued with their everyday routines and expected the newcomer to fit in. The newcomers found it easy to adjust to some routines that …
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