Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth
Thinking aloud about some atypical exchanges and applying the gift-giving frameworks we learnt to assess these.
//An opinion piece that uses the framework from this blog and this essay to assess various social situations under the gift-giving lens. We talk about bribes, charity, greeting cards, compliments and tipping. If you have followed along the theses on gift-giving as more than material exchange, what do you make of these social situations? There's also a short discussion on the gendered nature of gifts in Mauss' book that I found fascinating in the parallels for our society.