I: A theory of gifts: -- Some food we could not eat -- The bones of the dead -- The labor of gratitute -- The bond -- The gift community -- A female property -- Usury: a history of gift exchange. II: Two experiments in gift aesthetics: -- The commerce of the creative spirit -- A draft of Whitman -- Ezra Pound and the fate of vegetable money -- Conclusion.
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Starting with the premise that the work of art is a gift and not a commodity, this revolutionary book ranges across anthropology, literature, economics, and psychology to show how the 'commerce of the creative spirit' functions in the lives of artists and in culture as a whole.