Which of the following is not one of the three distinct stages of gift-giving rituals?

Abstract

This paper looks at examples of ritualized feasting and gift-giving from the point of view of "economizing" versus "squandering". Ritual gifts have to be understood as linked to the maximization of aims and values. What seems like squandering from one perspective may therefore be seen as a prudent investment from another viewpoint. Examples are drawn from Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and the North-West Coast of America.

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The Journal of Ritual Studies, founded in 1987, is a broadly based interdisciplinary journal, concentrating on the diverse, creative and globally significant topic of ritual studies. Disciplinary perspectives include, among other things, anthropology, history, religious studies, art and aesthetics, cognition, classical studies, archaeology, and philosophy: in other words, a rich diversity of humanistic and scientific perspectives. Notable contributions have come from scholars all over the world, encompassed either in individual papers or in special focused issues, or in book review forums. The long-term editors for the Journal of Ritual Studies are Dr. Pamela J. Stewart (Strathern) and Professor Andrew Strathern.

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Dr. Pamela J. Stewart (Strathern) and Prof. Andrew Strathern are a wife and husband research team with a long history of joint publications and research. They are based in the Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, and have been Visiting Research Fellow and Visiting Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Durham; Visiting Research Fellows in the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen; and have been Visiting Research Fellows at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan over many years.

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