RE: [microsound] gift economics

[Ian Andrews <i.andrews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>hello,
>i just subscribed to this group, names Dominic Lanzone. wanted to introduce
>myself. also, concerning gift economy and art, has anyone read The Gift:
>The Erotic Life of Property by Lewis Hyde?
>it's very good.

I found it to be a bit idealistic. Hyde tends to gloss over the more scary
aspects of the gift such as its link to sacifice.  Some more meaty texts
include:

Mauss, Marcel.  _The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic
Societies_.  Trans. I. Cunnison. New York: Norton, 1967

Hubert, Henri, and Marcel Mauss. _Sacrifice: Its Nature and Function
_Trans. W. D. Hulls. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964.

Bataille, Georges. _The Accursed Share_, Vol I. Trans. Robert Hurley, New
York: Zone, 1988

Bataille, Georges. _The Accursed Share_. Vol II & III. Trans. Robert
Hurley, New York: Zone, 1991.

Pefanis, Julian.   _Heterology and the Postmodern: Bataille,
		Baudrillard, and Lyotard_.  Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1991.

Weiss, Allen S.  _The Aesthetics of Excess_.  Albany: State University of
New York Press, 1989.

Derrida, Jacques. _ Given Time:1. Counterfeit Money_. Trans Peggy Kamuf.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Derrida, Jacques."From Restricted to General Economy: A Hegelianism without
Reserve," in _Writing and Difference_. Trans. Alan Bass. Chicago:
UNiversity of Chicago Press, 1978.

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