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  "textContent": "Lokensgard - The Matter of Responsibility - JCRT 4.1 \n\nThe Matter of Responsibility: Derrida and Gifting Across Cultures\n\nKen Lokensgard  \nCollege of Charleston\n\n  \n\nIn recent years, there has been a renewed interest in theories of the 'gift' and 'gifting' among those interested in cultural and religious studies. These scholars are reexamining the claim made by French sociologist, Marcel Mauss, that, among indigenous peoples and those whose cultures have developed independently from the now highly capitalistic cultures born from Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian pasts, an economy exists in which ongoing, reciprocal exchange is consciously emphasized. In _The Gift: the Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies_ (first appearing in French in 1925 as '_Essai sur le don_'), Mauss reveals that in most clan-based, indigenous societies, there is a strong awareness of interdependence and less concern with self-interest or the accrual of personal wealth than in many other societies.\n\n  \n\nNotes\n  \n\nBibliography\n\n> Benveniste, Emile. 'Gift and Exchange in the Indo-European Vocabulary.' In _The Logic of the Gift: Toward an Ethic of Generosity_, ed. Alan D. Schrift, 33-42. New York: Routledge, 1997.'''''''''''''''''''''''''\n> \n> Bernasconi, Robert. \"What Goes Around Comes Around: Derrida and Levinas on the Economy of the Gift and the Gift of Genealogy.\" In _The Logic of the Gift: Toward an Ethic of Generosity_, ed. Alan D. Schrift, 256-273. New York: Routledge, 1997.\n> \n> Bullchild, Percy. _The Sun Came Down: The History of the World as My Blackfeet Elders Told It_. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1985.\n> \n> Derrida, Jacques. _The Gift of Death_. Translated by David Wells. Religion and Postmodernism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.\n> \n> \\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_. _Given Time: I. Counterfeit Money_. Translated by Peggy Kamuf. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.\n> \n> Ewers, John C. _The Blackfeet: Raiders on the Northwest Plains_. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1958.\n> \n> Godelier, Maurice. _The Enigma of the Gift_. Translated by Nora Scott. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.\n> \n> Grinnell, George Bird. _Blackfoot Lodge Tales: The Story of a Prairie People_. N.p.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892; reprint, Williamstown: Corner House Publishers, 1972.\n> \n> Hallowell, A. Irving. 'Ojibwa Ontology, Behavior, and World View.' In _Teachings from the American Earth: Indian Religion and Philosophy_, ed. Barbara Tedlock and Dennis Tedlock, 141-178. New York: Liveright, 1975.\n> \n> Long, Charles. _Significations: Signs, Symbols, and Images in the Interpretation of Religion_. With a Foreword by Charles Winquist. Aurora: The Davies Group, 1999.\n> \n> Marx, Karl. _Capital: A Critique of Political Economy_. Volume I. Translated by Ben Fowkes. With an Introduction by Ernest Mandel. New York: Vintage Books, 1977.\n> \n> Mauss, Marcel. _The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies_. Translated by W.D. Halls. With a Foreword by Mary Douglas. New York: W.W. Norton, 1990.\n> \n> McClintock, Walter. _The Old North Trail or Life Legends and Religion of the Blackfeet Indians_. London: Macmillan and Co., 1910; reprint, Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1992.\n> \n> _Oxford English Dictionary_, 2nd ed., S.vv. 'economy,' 'appreciate.'\n> \n> Schrift, Alan D. \"Introduction: Why Gift?\" In _The Logic of the Gift: Toward an Ethic of Generosity_, ed. Alan D. Shrift, 1-22. New York: Routledge, 1997.\n\n  \n\n> Ken Lokensgard is a visiting assistant professor of religion at the College of Charleston. He specializes in the religious consequences of cultural contact for indigenous peoples. He is also interested in the ethnography of religion and in the politics of cultural representation.\n\n  \n\n> \n\n  \n\n ' 2002 Ken Lokensgard. All rights reserved.  \nUpdated 07/28/21.   \nhttp://jcrt.org/archives/04.1/lokensgard/\n\n---",
  "title": "The Matter of Responsibility: Derrida and Gifting Across Cultures"
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