The Request and the Gift in Religious and Humanitarian Endeavors

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Klaits, Frederick (Editor)
• Format: Electronic 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

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...