On heterochrony: birthday gifts to Stalin, 1949./Heterochronie: les cadeaux d'anniversaire de Staline, 1949.(Joseph Stalin )

From: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute | Date: June 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Gift relations have been traditionally theorized as antinomial to modernity or, within modernity, in the spheres of the personal relations and ideologies of altruism which dwell on the contrast with commodity and often cast themselves as residual, 'traditional' domains. This article explores claims to modernity that were made by public gift-giving to a modern head of state. It examines birthday gifts to the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin that he received from both his Soviet subjects and international leaders and movements and that were put on public display in 1949-53 in the Pushkin Museum of ...

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