The gift as material culture : report of a Yale-Smithsonian seminar held at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., April 28-30, 1991 / edited by Patricia Thatcher and Paul Michael Taylor with Cynthia Adams Hoover
Preface / Paul Michael Taylor -- Introduction : perspectives on the gift in Indonesia and beyond / Paul Michael Taylor
Wedding gifts and marital alliances: -- A tusk and a set of ornaments : exchange goods in Lio marriage alliance / Roy Hamilton -- Cultural resistance in New Mexico : the case of Las Entriegas de Novios / Maria Montoya -- Bride's wealth : a Woloma and the invention of a tradition / Mary Jo Arnoldi -- Southern ceremonial gifts / Candace Waid
Gifts in economic perspective: -- Gift or loan : Kapauku Papuan money transactions and their economic and political significance / Leopold Pospišil -- Real gifts : treaties, grants, and land transfers in America / George Miles -- Greeting cards and American consumer culture / John Fleckner -- The gift of giving : philanthropy in America / Jean Christophe Agnew
Power and propitiation : political and religious aspects of gift giving: -- Giving to get : tributes and offerings in central Sulawesi, Indonesia / Lorraine V. Aragon -- Indonesian court arts / Helen Ibbitson Jessup -- Presidential gifts in America / Alan Fern -- Colonial Boston church silver : gifts of community, commitment, and continuity / Gretchen Townsend
Conclusion and questions for further study -- Invited participants -- Selected references
