Anthropology in Action

ISSN 0967-201X

Publisher: Berghahn Journals

AiA is a peer-reviewed journal publishing key articles, commentaries, research reports, and book reviews that deal with the use of anthropology in all areas of policy and practice. Recent themes have included identity and movement, anthropology in Denmark, the effects of ethics, and anthropology and activism. Subjects covered by the journal include organizations, HIV/AIDS research, new reproductive technologies, the rights of indigenous peoples, community care and social policy, health, medicine and suffering, education and government policy, museums, place and space, management, ethnicity and violence, and overseas development.

Volume 15, Number 3, Winter 2008
What is a Gift? Questioning the Distinction between Gift and Commodity in Contemporary Societies. Edited by Michaela Benson and Denise Carter

Introduction

Nothing in Return? Distinctions between Gift and Commodity in Contemporary Societies
pp. 1-7(7)
Authors: Benson, Michaela; Carter, Denise

Articles

Alms, Money and Reciprocity: Buddhist Nuns as Mediators of Generalised Exchange in Thailand
pp. 8-21(14)
Author: Cook, Joanna

The Gift in Cyberspace
pp. 22-33(12)
Author: Carter, Denise

Repaying and Cherishing the Gift of Life: Gift Exchange and Living-related Kidney Transplantation in the Philippines
pp. 34-46(13)
Author: Shimazono, Yosuke

'If I receive it, it is a gift; if I demand it, then it is a bribe': On the Local Meaning of Economic Transactions in Post-Soviet Ukraine
pp. 47-60(14)
Author: Polese, Abel

Book Reviews

Book Reviews
pp. 61-65(5)