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and Order in Moroccan Society, ed. C. Geertz, pp. 123-244, Cambridge. Geismar, H. 2001. What's in a Price? An Ethnography of Tribal Art at Auction. Journal of Material Culture 6(1):25-49. Gell, A. 1992. Inter-Tribal Commodity Barter and Reproductive Gift…

distinguished noblemen of the region. Eventually the king himself heard of Gaoxing and sent a minister bearing betrothal gifts. Gaoxing replied: My husband unfortunately died young; I live in widowhood to raise his orphans, and [I am afraid that] I have not given…

to be guilty. Unlikely as it seems, Hanna is the only one who finds peace with herself and is able to absolve herself, in a way. Absolution is not a gift of the living. It lies with the wronged the speechless dead. Hanna finds peace within herself by confronting her…

, his dramatic muscles seem spindly and underdeveloped. In "Raise the Red Lantern," the director displays his usual gift for striking visual metaphors, but here they seem to exist in stasis. His painter's eye has taken over. His material here isn't without…

the gentlemen's names. They were astonished and started to immediately quiz me on other (very simple) kanji. Turns out one of them had a very nice pen/brush that had a replaceable cartridge for its source of ink. Before we left, this guy *gave* me the pen as a gift…

to be the master of the genre. Ragtime was absorbed into newly emerging jazz. More than any other person, Louis Armstrong made jazz America's music and America's greatest aesthetic gift to the world (Gates 78). Armstrong's way with a cornet or trumpet was unique…

. The camellia that Mrs. Dubose leaves Jem constitutes a distillation of what Atticus considers her essential goodness. Jem's running away from the gift symbolizes his inability to see this goodness. Whereas Mrs. Dubose's gesture seems to imply an appreciation…

and masturbated while doing them. He also began shoplifting for expensive items and told his mom that they were gifts. He was picked up at least twice by juvenile authorities for suspicion of auto theft and burglary, but nothing came of it. While Ted was on death row…

of society. Despite these gifts, artists live different lives from others. Faults and failures are common to most of them. These are probably results of their energy as well as the frustration of everyday life that do not comply to their ideals and dreams…

a local politician may be accepting gifts from a local businessman in return for encouraging fellow members of parliament to push forward local development plans. If these are confirmed reports (as opposed to rumours and allegations…