Comments on: Shadow, Ritual, and Relationship in the Gift https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/shadow-ritual-and-relationship-in-the-gift/2014/12/26 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Thu, 03 Dec 2015 11:51:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: K https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/shadow-ritual-and-relationship-in-the-gift/2014/12/26/comment-page-1#comment-1490860 Thu, 03 Dec 2015 11:51:09 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=47476#comment-1490860 When I read Marcel Mauss’ book “The Gift”, my impression was that gift economies are not without some drawbacks. They are secured by an economy of shame, with ingratiation potentially serving as a form of power/coercion. Your observation about the “homeopathic doctor who struggled to find clients when she was operating without fees” made me think of this essay– it explains how gifting is not necessary free for recipients: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/600485?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

]]> By: Gregory Baisden, Ph.D. https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/shadow-ritual-and-relationship-in-the-gift/2014/12/26/comment-page-1#comment-1027313 Mon, 29 Dec 2014 18:32:59 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=47476#comment-1027313 Hello, Charles.
Your sound insights here, so well articulated, are Much Appreciated.
Indeed, would your please consider allowing us to share this piece as a featured article on The Global Question website?
T|G|Q — newly relaunched and beginning to roll — aims to “diagnose” (openly discuss) and >resolve< (inclusively address) dilemmas raised by our current culture and begged by the need for new paradigms.
Please advise.

with best wishes,
Gregory Baisden, Ph.D.

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