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Volume 15 (2008): Issue 3 (Dec 2008): What Is a Gift? Questioning the Distinction between Gift and Commodity in Contemporary Societies. Guest Editors: Michaela Benson and Denise Carter

in Anthropology in Action

Table of Contents

Introduction
- Nothing in Return?
  
  Distinctions between Gift and Commodity in Contemporary Societies
  
  By: Michaela Benson and Denise Carter
  
  Pages: 1–7
Articles
- Alms, Money and Reciprocity
  
  Buddhist Nuns as Mediators of Generalised Exchange in Thailand
  
  By: Joanna Cook
  
  Pages: 8–21
- The Gift in Cyberspace
  
  By: Denise Carter
  
  Pages: 22–33
- Repaying and Cherishing the Gift of Life
  
  Gift Exchange and Living-related Kidney Transplantation in the Philippines
  
  By: Yosuke Shimazono
  
  Pages: 34–46
- 'If I Receive It, It Is a Gift; If I Demand It, Then It Is a Bribe'
  
  On the Local Meaning of Economic Transactions in Post-Soviet Ukraine
  
  By: Abel Polese
  
  Pages: 47–60
Book Reviews
- Book Reviews
  
  By: Monica Janowski, Lindsay Sprague and Costas S. Constantinou
  
  Pages: 61–65

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