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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Gift-Exchange"”.
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The Self and the Gift in Japan: A Cognitive View of Ritualized Gift Exchange in Contemporary Western Japan
"Oseibo exchanges provide a site to explore the relationship between the self and others in contemporary Japanese society. 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 …
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Two Marketing Essays: Evolution Of Attribute-Specific Preferences Through Consumer Learning And The Effect Of Gift Exchange On The Purchase Behavior
… <p>The second essay examines the effect of gift exchange on the purchase behavior. While the marketing manager's interest in the gift behavior is increasing, there has been little empirical research on the gift exchange of consumers in the marketing literature. In this essay, we analyze the …
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ESSAYS IN BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS
… question, we propose a new game, the Stochastic Gift Exchange game (SGE), that extends the standard sequential deterministic Gift Exchange game (DGE) into an environment with uncertainty. SGE shares the unique subgame perfect Nash equilibrium with DGE wherein no players trade, leading to a …
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Textual Representations of Almsgiving in Late Anglo-Saxon England
… the anthropological concepts of reciprocal gift-exchange and secular display of wealth in order to contextualise the Anglo-Saxon sources within a wider cultural milieu. In doing so, this thesis demonstrates not only that almsgiving played a vital part in lay devotional practice, but also …
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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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Gender in a Commodifying World: Recognition, Emotions and Market Women's Agency in the Goroka Marketplace, Papua New Guinea
… examines how food becomes a tradeable commodity, exchanged for money, in the Goroka marketplace and the effect this has on relations between men and women. Food has long had gendered meanings in Goroka, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea (PNG), a context where anthropologists have considered …
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The conscience of capital: philanthropy at the Chautauqua Institution
… members of the collectivity receiving their own gifts. The Institution provides the setting and the donors embed themselves within it through personally identifying with its philosophy, history, and grounds. Donors join with the Institution through participation in its governance and programs, …
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Pottery and emporia : imported pottery in Middle Saxon England with particular reference to Ipswich.
This thesis looks at the problems of trade and exchange in the Middle Saxon period (AD 650- 850), using, as a case study, the imported pottery excavated in Ipswich over the past 20 years. Richard Hodges' study of the imported pottery from Hamwic was taken as the starting point, although his work …
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The modern coterie: Fan fiction writers as a community of practice
… are in transition, including their practice of gift exchange, and their concept of a safe space. This dissertation adds to the understanding of CoP operations in online leisure communities and demonstrates that the historical custom of female writing coteries has a current virtual (and vibrant) …
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Composing Care: The Aesthetics and Politics of Music Therapy in the Clinic
… are grounded in reciprocity; through musical gift exchange, music therapists foster affective connections and attachments for hospital patients that reimagine care in ways that remain partially tethered to yet exceed biomedical logics. Mobilized for and against biopolitical care regimes that …
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The Maltese gift : tourist encounters with the self and the other in later life
… second examines the relationship through the ‘exchange lens' which is manifested along social and cultural lines within the Maltese tourism landscape context. The research indicates that older adult British visitors have a ‘love’ for the island, which is reciprocated by the Maltese Anglophiles, …
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The mobile pillars of sexual relationships. Pleasures and pressures: the practice of sexting in a gendered society amongst young people in South Africa.
… theory and Marcel Mauss’s (1969) theory of gift-giving as lenses through which to study sexting. Both theories are still relevant due to the enduringly performative nature of social interactions. The data garnered from this study confirms that the rules of impression management and …
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THE WHITE FRAUD: WHITE ELEPHANTS, VALUE, AND EXCHANGE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
… were not white, nor were they given away as gifts by the king of Siam in order to “ruin” his rivals, as virtually every text that seeks to explain the significance of the phrase suggests. Rather, I argue, the white elephant’s reputation as a “fatal gift” emerged from a cross-cultural …
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What is Music For?: Utopian Ecomusicologies and Musicking Hornby Island
… solidarity like turn-taking, trust-building, gift-exchange, communication, fundraising, partying, education, and conflict resolution as plentiful within musical ensembles in any socially environmentally conscious community. Based upon 10 months of fieldwork and 40 extended interviews, my …
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Beggars Can't Be Choosers or the Refugee as a Moral Agent?
… and genealogy of discourse, 3) Mauss' theory of gift-exchange in the third party setting, 4) Goffman's total institution theory on stigma and identity, and 5) moral perceptions created by a discourse based on agency, reciprocity, solidarity, and hope.</p><p> Discursive analysis affirms that the …
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Ἕρκος Ἀθηναίων: The Ajax Myth, the Trojan War, and Civic Ideology in Fifth-Century Athens
… I argue that Ajax recalls his single combat and gift exchange with Hector from the Iliad (Aj.654-665 alluding to Il.7.161-312), as a way for Athens to problematize shifting civic values and to incorporate that problematization into its civic identity.
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Financial vs Non-Financial Gifts and Workers' Performance: An Experimental Analysis of Reciprocity in the Workplace
… research orientation, rationale and objectives. Gift giving or reciprocity is widely used in organisations as an attempt to further improve employee performance and productivity, which is ultimately believed to result in higher levels of organisational performance and success. Reciprocity theory, …
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Blood, society and the gift: An ethnography of change in the gift relationship
… by its links with both Titmuss’ altruism and gift exchange theories. This thesis, using a qualitative ethnographic approach, re-examines and introduces new discourse about blood, challenging the orthodoxy of altruism and seeking new understanding and justification for blood donation. It uses …
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Place-making under Japan's neoliberal regime: ethics, locality, and community in rural Hokkaido
… by face-to-face contact, seasonal events, gift exchange, and various interactions with nature. In this respect, the BVP can be imagined as an assembled network that is composed of heterogeneous actors and things. The BVP as a rhizomatous community is embedded in the specific context of a …
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Frankish-Muslim Diplomatic Relations and the Shared Minority Discourse in the Eastern Mediterranean, 517-692 AH/1123-1293 AD
… that involved diplomatic conventions, such as gift-exchange, and they also shared a conceptualization of authority tied to their treatment of minorities and their ability to protect minorities that had evolved out of earlier discourses. تحاول هذه الأطروحة الربط بين العلاقات الدبلوماسية بين …
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