Browsing by Subject "Ceremonial exchange"
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Self-gifting and the metro-rural idyll: An illusio of ideal reflexive individualism.
(2010)Self-gifting is a performative process in which commodities purchased by an individual are 'gifted' to themselves. In negating the assumed necessity of transacting (but not necessarily witnessing) others, self-gifts challenge ...