The Gift (46 page)

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Hyde, Lewis, 1945–.
The gift.

1. Gifts. 2. Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.). 3. Economic anthropology.
4. Art and society. I. Title
GN449.6.H93 1983b
306′. 32
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