http://www.lewishyde.com/publications/the-gift
This is the best half of a book I've read. In the first half, Hyde examines the role of the gift in various traditional cultures and contrasts that with it's commodification in ours. Second half was less interesting to me - two separate essays, one on Walt Whitman, the other Ezra Pound. In fact, I think I tapped out about three quarters of the way through Walt Whitman, skipped the piece on Pound, and re-read the first half. How's that for a book review?
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