# The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/books/the-gift-imagination-and-the-erotic-life-of-property/
- Published: 2017-01-26T20:24:56+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Lewis Hyde explores the concept of the gift and giving and applies it to the arts,
in particular to poetry. It combines anthropology, history, economics, business,
creativity, the arts and much more.** 
 It was recommended and quoted from by [Amanda Palmer in her plenary speech](https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/10/19/art-asking-i-learned-stop-worrying-let-people-help/)
at the 2016 International Fundraising Congress in Holland: 

> "The gift must always move" Thanks for this quote [@amandapalmer](https://twitter.com/amandapalmer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> [#ifc2016](https://twitter.com/hashtag/ifc2016?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [pic.twitter.com/TgYeNKrQ7R](https://t.co/TgYeNKrQ7R)
> — Alice Ferris, CFRE, ACFRE (@aliceferris) [October 19, 2016](https://twitter.com/aliceferris/status/788725672915140609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

## ⏎  Reviews

 
“Tiger balm for tired minds” (_Sunday Times_)“Persuasive and fascinatingly illustrated,
_The Gift_ profits immensely from the modesty and unpretentiousness of Hyde’s writing
and the fascinated good nature with which he expounds his propositions” (_Independent
on Sunday_)

“Brilliant – by the time he is done he has folded language, culture and the very
habit of being human into his ken” (_New Yorker_)

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