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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is the discussion about the perception and identity construction reflected in the act of gift giving under the context of a loving relationship. Therefore, we used a theoretical framework based on identity and gift giving. In its methodology, we use of an interpretative approach based on the technical analysis procedures from the Grounded Theory proposed by Charmaz. Design/methodology/approach: 26 interviews were conducted with 15 men and women who declare themselves committed in romantic relationships, which resulted in approximately 21 hours of recording. Research, Practical & Social implications: The paper contributes to consumption studies because focus on the behavioral relationship of a couple, going beyond the common place of studies focused on individualized consumption. Originality/value: As a result, the paper presents two theoretical schemes that debate, respectively, the formation of the couple's identity and the evolution of the act of gift giving in a context of loving relationship, resulting in a final debate about the formation of the couple's identity as a process that occurs concurrently with the increase in the symbolic level of the gifts, reflecting this construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Based on the "Ferenczi case", as identified in a text by his patient/analyst, Elizabeth Severn, this article presents and discusses three issues of contemporary psychoanalysis: a critique of the emphasis on diagnostic interpretation, especially when it is standardizing, the creation of intersubjective spaces in analysis and their potential dimension and the way that "madness", once shared, psychically mobilizes and allows relevant content to emerge in both the patient and the analyst. This article further discusses whether the possibility of adopting a non-normative position towards disruptive elements of the other's psyche could be the result, at least in part, of the analyst's ability to move between the fragments of his own psyche. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article intends to examine the text of Pope Francis 'encyclical Laudato Si' from the perspective of the logic of gift, ultimately the logic of gratuity, that is, in terms of Christian theology, the logic of grace. This perspective will be explained at the end of the article, after analyzing the ethical, practical, and even political and technological implications that are called into question in the text of the encyclical. It is concluded that the future of life on earth, ecologically harmonized, will only be possible with the ethical generosity of the human. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this article is to analyze how the autofiction in Eliane Brum's Meus Desacontecimentos becomes fundamental in the formation and affirmation of the author's identity as, first of all, a writer. In this way, we analyze the tendentious, precursory and libertarian role of writing in the narrator's memories and the importance of this to deal with our own history and overcome fears and traumas. In order to understand the role of recall within the identity process, we use the concepts already discussed by Paul Ricoeur (2007), Aleida Assmann (2011), Laura Reestrepo (2008), and others. Thus, it is understood that in the work under analysis, childhood is recreated just like a stage where life is staged and selects the cast of influence that wishes to reinforce, as well as stresses the leading role given to the act of writing in the past and gift. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text explores the way in which the transindividual in L'individuation à la lumière des notions de forme e d'information is composed as output for the combination between the shift of being, present into pre-individual and the psychic-collective individuations. In Simondon's thesis, the transindividual presents itself as a singular kind of intersection between physical and vital, and singular and collective. It's present the coexistence between the dynamisms that give rise to individuations, and which correspond both to restore what guarantees the metastability and the set of transindividual relations. At the same time, it's propose a review of the notions of subjectivation and identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims at discussing the importance of research conducted with children and presents contributions from two theoretical fields: Sociology of Childhood and Ethnography. Theoretical fields such as these are essential, because in addition to broaden our views of childhood and of being a child, they point out methodological paths of research and re-signify their senses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study aimed to understand, based on theoretical analysis and bibliographical review, the essence of the interface between the new paradigm of development (with emphasis on the local) and the new urban, which is based on the concept of city-commodity. Thus, it also aimed to understand the main socioenvironmental consequences of this spectacularized new urban. It was concluded that local development and the city-commodity are seemingly congruent categories, but in essence they are incongruent. Whilst the local development is based on the concept of fostering local potentialities, the second category is based on the "importation" of models and the construction of synthesis images, destroying the diversity which is inherent in cities. In addition, it was observed that the spectacularization of cities presents itself as one of the city-commodity models, where just few people benefit from the urban restructuring of the spectacle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The experience of the Risen Jesus is always innovative and surprising, so that it must be shown with constructive aspects such as the fulfillment of promises and gifts both personal and communitarian, which can boost community processes to open some pastoral fields empowered by the strength of the Risen. From the biblical commentary of Jn 20,19-23 the ability to grow in pastoral and community settings with healed, in peace people is given, under the impulse of the Holy Spirit that leads to strengthen the relationships with both forgiveness and the mission.

The intention of this paper is to analyze the social debt contracted by women in southeastern Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), within the theoretical framework of feminist economic anthropology based on ethnographic data collected there during 2012 at a Nutrition Club where Herbalife is served. Affections, prestige and honor all circulate as women care for themselves, as material, symbolic, emotional and corporal exchanges take place, thus initiating specific forms of sociality and new relationships. Gifts, as a system of reciprocities, generate and sustain bonds of trust; debt itself can become ambivalent, like the femininity of these women, which is questioned and reconstructed amid of oppressive contexts.

This essay seeks to discuss a few possibilities for a theory of history that is engaged with our times problems based on a number of Hayden White's work. Thus, in a context that combines consolidation of neoliberal rationalities, expansion of necropolitics against specific population groups, and ascent of fascist movements and modes of government, the text offers perspectives for repositioning the theory of history as a critique of the present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

RESUMO O artigo discute a maneira como os índios interpretavam os presentes ou brindes que lhes eram oferecidos como parte do processo de catequese e civilização na Amazônia do século XIX. A análise de documentos oficiais, relatos de viajantes e notícias de jornais permite constatar que os índios, muito longe de serem pessoas ingênuas que se deixavam seduzir por objetos de pouco valor, atribuíam significados próprios aos brindes, traduzindo-os e assimilando-os de acordo com regras determinadas por suas próprias culturas. A leitura indígena dos brindes demonstra que tais objetos não devem ser pensados apenas em torno de seu valor comercial, mas sobretudo pela dimensão simbólica que regulava essas transações do ponto de vista dos indígenas.

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A partir de um estudo de caso centrado em uma organização que edita uma revista vendida por pessoas "sem teto" na cidade de Buenos Aires, me interrogo sobre os usos sociais do dinheiro em circuitos filantrópicos. Ao seguir a polêmica entre dinheiro e dom, que está no centro das discussões da antropologia e da sociologia, enfoco duas questões: a) o papel do dinheiro para demarcar os limites entre as "transações mercantis" e as "circulações de dons"; b) a relação entre dinheiro e moral. O trabalho de campo consistiu em uma etnografia das transações entre os vendedores e os compradores desta publicação.Based on a case study of an organization responsible for publishing a magazine sold to ‘homeless’ people in Buenos Aires, I examine the social uses of money in philanthropic circles. Turning to the polemic between money and gift at the centre of discussions in anthropology and sociology, I focus on two questions: a) the role of money in demarcating the limits between ‘market transactions’ and ‘gift circulations’; b) the relation between money and morality. Fieldwork involved an ethnographic study of the transactions between the sellers and buyers of this publication.

Children's birthday parties, and related consumption, form an integral part of the social process of mothering in contemporary consumer culture. From the choosing of the 'right' present to the arrangement of the 'appropriate' party theme, an enormous pressure is exerted upon mothers to maintain social equilibrium through the circulation of their children and gifts amongst and across households. Ethnographic research in Britain suggests that the economic growth of children's party provision and services is coupled with a popular discourse that laments the loss of 'authentic' kinship-based birthday parties and home-made provisioning. In contrast to this spoken discourse, this article reveals how women in fact avidly embrace market goods and services; as a means of generating a culture of sameness that avoids the risks (to the motherhood as a collective, localised phenomenon) of exceptional or overtly accomplished mothering. Commercialised, mass produced goods and birthday services are used as a means of limiting expressive gift relations and hospitality. In this sense, the search for sameness, through the cultural practice of making children's parties, is at once liberating and potentially oppressive in its strive for the normative and its inadvertent exclusion of 'other' care-givers. Furthermore, children and their related material culture are consumed, through the birthday party circuit, as a means of generating specific types of mothering.Festas de aniversário infantil, e o consumo ligado a elas, formam uma parte integral do processo social da criação dos filhos na cultura de consumo contemporânea. Da escolha do presente "certo" à preparação do tema "apropriado" para a festa, uma grande pressão é exercida sobre as mães para manter um equilíbrio através da circulação de suas crianças e seus presentes entre e além das famílias. Uma pesquisa etnográfica na Grã-Bretanha sugere que o crescimento econômico dos preparativos e serviços para festas infantis está ligado a um discurso popular que lamenta a perda da festa de aniversário "autêntica", baseada na relação familiar e nos preparativos feitos em casa. Em contraste a este discurso falado, este artigo revela como as mulheres, na verdade, adotam com avidez produtos e serviços do mercado, como uma forma de gerar uma cultura da mesmice que evita os riscos (à maternidade, como um fenômeno coletivo e localizado) de uma criação dos filhos incomum ou declaradamente realizada. Os produtos e serviços para aniversários comercializados e produzidos em massa são usados como um meio de limitar as relações expressivas de presentes e hospitalidade. Neste sentido, a busca pela mesmice, através da prática cultural de fazer festas infantis, é ao mesmo tempo libertadora e potencialmente opressiva em seu esforço pela exclusão normativa e inadvertida de "outros" cuidadores. Além disso, as crianças, e a cultura material relacionada a elas, são consumidas através do circuito de festas de aniversário, como um meio de gerar tipos específicos de criação dos filhos.

The gift has been studied in a variety of social relations, but not in its daily and wide ranged presence in television. Considering television not only as a reproducer but also as a producer of society, we try a general sociologic approach to the gift in television. Just as in the other social relations, it manifests in several ways, from the great charity media events to the daily talk shows. Although inscribed in the commercial sphere of the television business, these programmes keep the main character of the gift, reinforcing the authority of television and its ties with audiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper analyzes the peasantry beyond the economic dimension, stressing the fundamental moral and social dimensions. To this end it uses as argumentative thread, the understanding that the categories land and family are essential for adding complexity and enabling understanding of the dynamics peasantry. These categories, land and family, must be understood apart from their economic dimensions. The discussion clarifies some of the differences between varied analytical approaches to the peasantry, especially those related to peasant economy. Informed by other authors, some of the same literature can be read to suggest new thinking about the moral order of the peasantry. The peasant economy, as a moral order, is embedded in the social world. The crisscrossing of social and economic realms reproduces values, such as the Land-value and Family-value, in ways that distinguish the peasantry. The social relations that characterize the peasant economy are infused by symbolic constructions that serve to explain them, justify them and regulate them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The relations of consumption are economic exchanges, which apply the principles governing the granting of gifts, that is, there is a certain obligation to repay the provision of dignity, there must be a certain balance in the exchange held. It is not giving due consideration, appear to conflict of consumption. This is not a question only material but also a moral issue, an offense. To remedy this offense, the state must act to recognise the consumer as a subject worthy of respect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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