CONTENTS 
Introduction xi 
IEORY OF GIFTS 
One + Some Food We Could Not Eat 
Two - The Bones of the Dead 25 
Three « The Labor of Gratitude 40 
Four + The Bond 56 
Five + The Gift Community 74 
Six + A Female Property 93 
Seven + Usury: A History of Gift Exchange 10g 
[1 - TWO EXPERIMENTS INGIFT AESTHETICS 
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Eight - The Commerce of the Creative Spirit 143 
Nine + A Draft of Whitman 160 
Ezra Pound and the Fate of Vegetable Money 216 
Conclusion 273 
Bibliography 283 
Notes 289 
Acknowledgments 
Index 313 
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