Gifts create feeling-bonds that commodities do not

Evidence

As the scholar and writer Lewis Hyde notes, “It is the cardinal difference between gift and commodity exchange that a gift establishes a feeling-bond between two people.” — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 98

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Gifts arrive unearned and demand only open-eyed presence, not merit — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 88; Commodity exchange ends obligation while gift exchange creates it — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 97; Gift value grows through circulation whereas property value grows by exclusion — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 102 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Self-help emotional commodities substitute defectively for lost intimacy rituals #qualifies (0.78) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 229
• Marcuse’s account of self-recognition in commodities prefigures the postmodern structure of feeling #qualifies (0.72) — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 148