Tag: gifts

• Souvenirs

  Does anyone else have a problem with the tradition of acquiring and distributing souvenirs?  On the surface it is certainly a kind gesture, but… Possibility #1:  “You’re going to R—, how lovely!  Pick me up a ——- while you’re there!” In this common version, the traveler is transformed from a person with privilege and an […]

  cwampole

  December 18, 2013

  Research

  correspondence art, cynicism, gifts, reciprocity