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Gift-giving as Symbolic Communication in the Noble Society of Bohemia and Moravia at the Beginning of the Early Modern Age
KALIVODA, Jakub
This diploma thesis concerns itself with gifts in the noble society of fifteenth century Bohemia and Moravia. With the use of epistolary sources, the thesis tries to describe the nobles sending or receiving gifts, the items making up the gifts and the purpose of this social act. The number of uncovered letters allowed for quantitative approach; however, the sources are also analysed semantically. The thesis considers gift giving a mode of communication, used to convey information. Gift giving is theoretically approached on the basis of the works of Marcel Mauss, Pierre Bourdieu and others.
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A gift - transformations over time
Kunstová, Dorota ; Elischer, David (advisor) ; Frinta, Ondřej (referee)
Dorota Ryčlová A gift - transformations over time Abstract This thesis is focused on a gift as an object of gift-giving and its purpose is to analyse this institute as completely as possible. Both from historical point of view, as well as from the perspective of actual legislation. Not even the perception of a gift by other sciences like psychology, anthropology, economy or diplomacy will be left aside. One of the introductory chapters is concerned with gift transformating in law from the Code of Hammurabi, over the Roman law and the Middle Ages up to the regulation of the Austro- Hungarian Empire, the First Czechoslovak Republic and both civil codes valid and effective in our territory in the second half of the twentieth century. Naturally, the largest extent is devoted to the conception of a gift in current legislation, especially in the Act No. 89/2012 coll. civil code (hereinafter referred to as the New Civil Code - "NCC"). Not only from the point of view of NCC Stat. §§ 2055-2078, which deals with different forms of the gift itself (and gift-giving and contract of donation respectively), but also from the point of view of other NCC provisions explicitly mentioning gift or gratuitously provided performances. For the needs of distinguishing between a gift stricto sensu and any other similar performances,...
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Analysis of Gift-giving in Czech Society after 1989
Duchoslavová, Romana ; Doležalová, Antonie (advisor) ; Hrdinová, Ivana (referee)
The objective of this theses is to explore the development of gift-giving in Czech Republic after the velvet revolution in 1989. First part of the theses deals with the theoretical basis of altruism and philanthropy. The gift-giving explored in the theses is viewed as a specific case when the beneficient does not know the beneficiary. This specific case is then discussed with the theoretical aspect of altruism and philanthropy. Further on the civil society and its connection to the gift-giving is observed and the role of the foundations in czech society reflected. The analysis of the gift-giving is provided in the second part of the theses, based on the financial history of four czech foundations. A clear cut trend is not obvious, thus some other aspects coming out of the analysis are accented.
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