In the economic world this novel constructs, money and commodities are not intrinsically bad, just as altruism and gifts are not intrinsically good.
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The friars sent back covered baskets which concealed reciprocal gifts.
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In this example, it cannot be said if the gifts were compulsory, recommended, or completely voluntary.
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The ideal process contains only one limitation: are we gifted or not?
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Under this proposal, farmers and pastoralists may enjoy rights of transfer through subleases, loaning, inheritance or gifts.
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In proportion, as she becomes niggardly in her gifts, she exacts a greater price for her work.
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In contrast, one-off financial gifts to grandchildren were common and by far the most frequent type of private financial transfer.
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Currencies, for instance, can be turned into gifts, following certain rules, and used to earmark the creation, celebration, and sustaining of intimate ties.
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Such gifts have the potential to cross the border into vote buying.
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Paying a dowry for marriage does not lead to a complete commodification of women, but it differs significantly from giving mere ritual gifts.
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What has, however, seen drastic changes are the brides and the marriage gifts.
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The article demonstrates how the giving of money has influenced other categories of gifts, while the market logic has drawn from cultural considerations.
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We swap small gifts, we go out together.
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Thus gifts of maps in 1908, like gifts of photographs in 1930, were used to make absence appear with a determined legal sense in 1962.
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Both are peerless beauties and possess considerable musical gifts.
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Collocationswithgift
gift
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annual gift
But anyone with four children finds that each of them can have only a quarter of that and anannualgiftof £250.
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birthday gift
Another birthday we cannot share, mybirthdaygiftmust be a prayer.
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charitable gift
A person'scharitablegift, for example, may be tax exempt.
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