Benefaction and benevolence

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Alexakis, E. (2006). Benefaction and benevolence: The concept of the pure gift and realization of the community in Greece. An anthropological approach, (54), 9-23. Retrieved from http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?ID=0350-08610654009A
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Title

Benefaction and benevolence

Subtitle

The concept of the pure gift and realization of the community in Greece. An anthropological approach

Author

Eleftherios, Alexakis

Journal

Glasnik Etnografskog instituta SANU

Volume
Issue

54

Start page

9

End page

23

ISSN
ISBN
DOI
URL

http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?ID=0350-08610654009A

Date

2006-2020/03/06/22:10:36

Abstract

The study examines diachronically the phenomenon of benefaction and benevolence in Greece, and endeavors to interpret this through prevailing theories on gift and specifically of the competitive and the pure gift, as these have been formulated by distinguished sociologists, anthropologists and philosophers. It is argued that this offering is intended to strengthen the concept of the community, in the wider sense, either as an ethnic-national group or as a group with man as reference point.

Keywords

philanthropy, ancient liturgy (leitourgia), benefaction, benevolence, bequest, community, gift, national benefactor, potlatch, voluntarism