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Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2022 Gift giving is a prevalent social custom, particularly in Chinese society. Since people do not act independently of social norms, they are also motivated by the views of others when giving gifts. However, there is no existing literature on this important
Tao Zhang
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Journal of Applied Marketing Theory, 2013 Gift cards are frequently located at premium points inside the retail space where stores sell not only their own cards but also other retailers’ cards for almost every occasion. Media encouraged practitioners to promote these cards.
Melek Anitsal +2 more
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Kaffet, blomman och det tända ljuset
Kulturella Perspektiv, 2007 What is gift-giving? This article presents a brief theoretical overview concerning the concept of gift-giving in the modern society. The concept of gift is an old social and cultural phenomenon.
Jörgen Lundälv, Per-Olof Larsson
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The term bridewealth – A contribution to the terminology of matrimonial gift giving
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2006 This essay attempts to bring more order to terminology of matrimonial gift giving – the ever more complicated area in the past couple of decades. Furthermore, it reaffirms the idea of the evolution of matrimonial gift giving, and after many decades in ...
Vojislav Stanimirović
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Semiotic rhetoric of gift giving in ancient China
Language and Semiotic Studies, 2023 This paper examines the signifying mechanism of gift-giving in ancient China from the perspective of semiotic rhetoric, aiming to answer the question of what can be regarded as li (roughly meaning ceremony, rite, courtesy, or gift) or, in other words ...
Zhao Xingzhi, Xue Chen
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The present research explored differences in gift evaluation between gift givers and receivers. Three studies were conducted to test how the pricing influenced the gift evaluations of givers and receivers, and whether the price-quality and price-monetary
Ning Liu, Yu Lou, Xinyu Wang, Shouxin Li
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Studi sulla Formazione, 2017 The act of giving, in a pedagogical point of view, interlaces often with the act of giving himself and with the free and responsable will of encountering the other by his humanity.
Anna Kaiser
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Collective philanthropy: describing and modeling the ecology of giving. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Reflective of income and wealth distributions, philanthropic gifting appears to follow an approximate power-law size distribution as measured by the size of gifts received by individual institutions.
William L Gottesman +2 more
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The University and the Gift: A Problem Definition [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2014 The authors suggest introducing the notion of the gift into the theory and practice of the University life. They believe that the relationship of gift in transmission of knowledge is immanent to the management organization of the University. If knowledge
Nikolay Emelianov, Ivan Pavliutkin
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Potlatch, absolute hospitality and metaphorization in constructing socioeconomic intercultural reality [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021 The article reveals and substantiates the following thesis: the “economy of trust” exists exclusively in the context and sphere of specific social relations named potlatch. Potlatch is a traditional gift-giving feast that taken place among the natives of
Bolshunov Andrey Yakovlevich +3 more
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