The Shadow Side of Social Gift-Giving: miscommunication and Failed Gifts

1. Gifting as Dilemma: Gifts Do Not Speak for Themselves 2. The Communication Culture of Social Gifts A.Using a Receiver-Centered Model of Relational Gift Communication B.The Cultural Theater Where Gift-Giving Is Performed C.Gift-Brains: The Biological Foundation Behind the Gifting Culture 3. Gift-Giving: It May Not Be the Thought that Counts 4. Gift-Receiving: It's just what I wanted [Not.] A.You shouldn't have, really. B.Now What? The Burden of Gift Disposition 5. Unwrapping the Moral Dilemmas of Gifting A.Is There Ever a Perfect Gift? B.Is It Better to Give or Receive? C.Is Gift Competition a Winnable Sport? 6. New Lenses for Looking at an Old Event: Rewrapping Gift Scholarship Appendix: The Gift of Story. The Gifts of Wali Dad