For ten points, name this practice discussed by Marcel Mauss in a 1923-24 essay, which involves transferring control of something to another person without explicit compensation.
In Law and Social Norms, the legal economist Eric Posner stated that if financial markets were perfect, poor people would borrow money in order to perform this activity. Lewis Hyde wrote a book on this activity subtitled "Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property", which includes a section which claims that this concept "must always move". Jean-Luc Marion published a 2002 book whose subtitle suggests moving towards a phenomenology that would encourage this activity. This term can also refer to a practice of some in the homosexual community of intentionally infecting others with HIV. Polanyi in The Great Transformation suggests this practice as an alternative economic structure to markets and describes an example of this in the Trobriand islands involving breadfruit and fish, while another theorist argued that this activity is performed in expectation of reciprocal action. For ten points, name this practice discussed by Marcel Mauss in a 1923-24 essay, which involves transferring control of something to another person without explicit compensation.
In Law and Social Norms, the legal economist Eric Posner stated that if financial markets were perfect, poor people would borrow money in order to perform this activity.
{gift giving} [accept other {clear} equivalents]