Dickinson, Mark2012-10-052012-10-052002FES Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Series1702-3548http://hdl.handle.net/10315/18094"Gifting" or "gift exchange" is an economic practice carried out in cultures worldwide, from so called "archaic" times to the present day. Definitions vary: to some, gifting is a mirror image or a shadow of the current market economy. To others it is the very opposite - generalized, delayed, unreciprocated, unpredictable, both creative and destructive. This Area of Concentration considers the latter definition, and focuses on how gifting economies among human societies can reflect, involve, and merge with cycles within nature.enOtherhttp://www.yorku.ca/fes/research/students/outstanding/index.htm