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| | Gift Encyclopedia Article @ BornYesterday.com (Born Yesterday) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | A gift or present is the transfer of money, goods, etc., without the direct compensation that is involved in trade, although possibly involving a social expectation of reciprocity, or a return in the form of prestige or power. |
 | | A gift may either be an ordinary object or an object created for the express purpose of gift exchange, such as the armbands and necklaces in the Trobriand Islands' Kula exchange. |
 | | A gift, in this sense, can be thought of as being given by God or by nature: a God-given or natural gift received by one at birth. |
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