The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property is a 1983 book by Lewis Hyde, in which the author examines the importance of gifts, their flow and movement and the impact that the modern market place has had on the circulation of gifts.JoAnn Schwartz. "Reviewed by JoAnn Schwartz". Retrieved 27 February 2013. Classified as economic anthropology, some reviewers have seen it as a work of metaphysics (the branch of philosophy concerned with understanding the basics of reality, such as questions of cause and effect).
Part of part I, "A Theory of Gifts", was originally published as "The Gift Must Always Move" in Co-Evolution Quarterly No. 35 in fall 1982.
Other editions and translations The book has been republished with alternative subtitles,."The Gift - Purchase", lewishyde.com. Retrieved 11 February 2016. A 2006 printing appeared with the subtitle "How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World" and a 2007 printing as "Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World". The twenty-fifth anniversary 2007 edition contains a new preface and afterword.
It has been translated into Italian (2005, ), German (2008, ), Chinese (2008, ), Japanese (2002, ) and Turkish (2007, ).
See also
Gift economy
References
External links The Gift at Lewis Hyde's web page with comments, reviews and excerpt