...Mauss wrote: To give is to show one's superiority, to show that one is something more and higher. . . . To accept without returning or repaying more is to...subordination to become a client and subservient. . . . The gift not yet repaid debases the man who accepted it, particularly if he did so without thought...

...recipient of a benefit is both materially enriched and politically impoverished by it. As Mauss declares, "To give is to show one's superiority, to show that...become a client and subservient, to become minister. " 62 In the letters of thanksgiving to Danvers, glimmers of the onerous nature of the favors that Danvers...

...explains: To give is to show one's superiority, to show that one is something more and higher. ... To accept without returning or repaying more is to...subordination, to become a client and subservient. (1985:192) In conferring gifts that are not reciprocated, the employer shows that she is "something...

...In his "Essai sur le Don" (1925), Mauss mentions the ambivalence of feelings with respect to a gift; "to give is to show one's superiority, to show that...subordination, to become a client and subservient." (Mauss, 1954 [1925], 72). He attaches most importance, though, to the function of the gift as a symbolic...

...debased the king; it is precisely his generosity that establishes his royalty. For, in Mauss's words: Between vassals and chiefs, between vassals and their...become a client and subservient, to become minister.^ It must have been precisely this realization that moved King al-Harith to exclaim, when the poem asked...

...understanding the establishment and maintenance of the Arabo-Islamic courtly hierarchy. He writes: Between vassals and chiefs, between vassals and their...become a client and subservient, to become minister. (Mauss 1967: 70) Further, 'No less important is the role which honour plays in the transactions .......

...primitive economic institutions of exchange in The Gift: "To give is to show one's superiority, to show that one is ... magister. To accept without returning...repaying more is to face subordination, ... to become minister" " Duncan's "life-giving, fertile poetry" and his habit of informally bestowing honors like...

..."To give," he says, "is to show one's superiority, to show that one is something more and higher. ... To accept without returning or repaying more is to...subordination to become a client and subservient" (Mauss 1954:72). Studies have documented that power differentials between domestic workers and employers...

...that the creditor becomes the debtor." s For, in Mauss's words: The Poetics of Political Allegiance Between vassals and chiefs, between vassals and their...bond of clientage between the poet and the patron. i" What we are dealing with in al-Jahiz's anecdote is then an inversion or perversion of the ritual...