Gift or commodity: what changes hands in the U.S. garage sale?
Gift or commodity: what changes hands in the U.S. garage sale?
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礼物或商品：美国旧货拍卖中什么易手？
DOI：
10.1525/ae.1997.24.4.910
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发表时间：
1997
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Gretchen M. Herrmann
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作者：
Gretchen M. Herrmann
美国的车库拍卖将礼物和商品交换的元素结合在一种动态的紧张关系中，使礼物和商品对立和相互排斥的传统特征复杂化。尽管有明显的市场机制，但许多车库旧货交易也带有赠送礼物的特征。在这种以家庭为基础的交易中，定价的弹性允许卖家考虑社会关系，因此易手的物品成为“不可分割的商品”的混合品种。
The U.S. garage sale incorporates elements of both gift and commodity exchange in a dynamic tension, one that complicates traditional characterizations of gift and commodity as oppositional and mutually exclusive. Despite its apparently marketlike mechanisms, much of garage sale exchange also partakes of the character of gift giving. The elasticity in pricing in this home-based exchange allows sellers to take social relations into account, so that objects that change hands become hybrid varieties of “inalienable commodities.”