Gift Giving: A Research Anthology

Gift Giving: A Research Anthology
ISBN-10
0879727055
ISBN-13
9780879727055
Category
Reference
Pages
260
Language
English
Published
1996
Publisher
Popular Press
Authors
Cele Otnes, Richard Francis Beltramini

Description

Gift Giving brings together 21 scholars from a variety of disciplines - including consumer behavior, communications, and sociology - who are dedicated to the understanding of what motivates gift selection, presentation, and incorporation of a gift into a person's life. The text explores the role of values in gift exchange; the influence of ethnic, generational, and subcultural differences in gift exchange; how gifts to the self are manifested; and new directions and topics in gift giving. In these essays, gift giving occasions are probed for the meanings that can be illuminated with respect to this pervasive, yet not always positive, phenomenon. For anyone interested in gift giving behavior, this volume should prove both enlightening and provocative.

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