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The Socio-economic Transformation in Makassar Tribe Gift-giving Tradition: Reconstructing Social Welfare Strategy

open access: yesCosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
The gift-giving tradition in Jeneponto, the land of the Makassar Tribe, has undergone significant transformation over time, reflecting changes in socio-economic ethics within societies. This study explores the evolution of this tradition and its profound
Fatjri Nur Tajuddin, Afidatul Asmar
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Community gifting groups on Facebook

open access: yesJournal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2023
We use de-identified data from Facebook Groups to study and provide a descriptive analysis of local gift-giving communities, in particular Buy Nothing groups. These communities allow people to give items they no longer need, reduce waste, and connect to
Amaç Herdağdelen   +2 more
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Gift-giving, consumption and the female court in sixteenth-century Italy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
PhDThe subject of my research is the female consort and her court. I focus on three Austrian Archduchesses: Giovanna, Barbara and Eleonora Habsburg who came down to Italy in the second half of the sixteenth century and married into the ducal houses of ...
Bercusson, Sarah Jemima
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Does rural cluster residence increase gift-giving expenditure of rural households?—evidence from Sichuan province in China

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications
As a strategy for rural revitalization and poverty alleviation, the rural cluster residence policy has been implemented in 24 provinces across China.
Menghan Wang, Zhong Liu, Chunlan Ji
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Gift-giving and network structure in rural China: utilizing long-term spontaneous gift records. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
The tradition of keeping written records of gift received during household ceremonies in many countries offers researchers an underutilized means of data collection for social network analysis.
Xi Chen
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The term nevestnina – A contribution to the terminology of matrimonial gift giving

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2016
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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Gift-Giving as a Courtship or Mate-Retention Tactic?: Insights from Non-Human Models

open access: yesEvolutionary Psychology, 2009
Biology and social science research has studied gift-giving, but the former has been more concerned with courtship and the latter has come from either a cultural-relativistic perspective or a handicap principle perspective.
Peter K. Jonason   +3 more
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Worthless donations: male deception and female counter play in a nuptial gift-giving spider

open access: yesBMC Evolutionary Biology, 2011
Background In nuptial gift-giving species, benefits of acquiring a mate may select for male deception by donation of worthless gifts. We investigated the effect of worthless gifts on mating success in the spider Pisaura mirabilis.
Albo Maria J   +4 more
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Gift and Danger

open access: yesCivilistica.com, 2016
The intensity of the law’s interaction with gift giving suggests that examining their relationship might produce interesting insights about both gift giving and the law.
Richard Hyland
doaj  

Transformational philanthropy and networks of cocreated value in Canada [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This research discusses transformational philanthropy and networks of cocreated value in Canada, focusing on the top segment Canadian philanthropists who make single donations of $5 Million CAD or more.
Abray-Nyman, Jacline
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