Lewis Hyde locates the origin of gift economies in the sharing of food, citing as an example the Trobriand Islander protocol of referring to a gift in the Kula exchange ring as " some food we could not eat ," even though the gift is not food, but an ornament purposely made for passing as a gift.

Some scholars attributed the origin to the Shaker song " Hinkum-Booby " which had similar lyrics and was published in Edward Deming Andrews ' A gift to be simple in 1960: ( p. 42 ).

In sum, it can be said that the techniques and standards of present day have their origin at the turn of the century.

While the origin of state-owned automobiles may be obscured, subsequent developments concerning the assignment, use, and management of state automobiles can be related more clearly.

One can take a vase of about 800 B.C. and, without any knowledge of its place of origin, venture to assign it to a specific area ; ;

`` Such a vicious statement can only have its origin in the desire of a new political candidate to try to make his name known by condemning a man of world stature.

These can range from simple spelling changes and word forms to switching the entire writing system itself, as when Turkey switched from the Arabic alphabet to a Turkish alphabet of Latin origin.

By its geological origin, islands forming archipelagos can be referred to as oceanic islands, continental fragments and continental islands.

As neither tune is attributed and both show elements of oral transmission, scholars can only speculate that they are possibly of British origin.

The term can trace its origin to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan when millions of Afghans took refuge in neighboring Pakistan and Iran.

Alternatively they can be organized by whether the raw stock is of natural, or synthetic origin, or by their starting physical phase.

For the case of an object that is small compared with the radial distance to its axis of rotation, such as a tin can swinging from a long string or a planet orbiting in a circle around the Sun, the angular momentum can be expressed as its linear momentum,, crossed by its position from the origin, r. Thus, the angular momentum L of a particle with respect to some point of origin is

Though the origin is ambiguous, the draughtsman of the charter issued by Æthelstan used the term in a way that can only mean ' wide ruler '.

The origin of the party can be traced back to the ideological divisions in the Labour Party in the 1950s ( with its forerunner being the Campaign for Democratic Socialism established to support the Gaitskellites ), but publicly lies in the 1979 Dimbleby Lecture given by Roy Jenkins as he neared the end of his presidency of the European Commission.

In certain Gulf Arab countries, " bachelor " can refer to men who are single as well as immigrant men married to a spouse residing in their country of origin ( due to the high added cost of sponsoring a spouse onsite ), and a colloquial term " executive bachelor " is also used in rental and sharing accommodation advertisements to indicate availability to white-collar bachelors in particular.

The origin of the term " born again " is the New Testament: " Jesus replied, ' Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born again.

* Steric forces between polymer-covered surfaces or in solutions containing non-adsorbing polymer can modulate interparticle forces, producing an additional steric repulsive force ( which is predominantly entropic in origin ) or an attractive depletion force between them.

Thus, the sum of all applied forces and torques ( with respect to the origin of the coordinate system ) in the body can be given by

Many people of Chaoshan origin, also known as Teochiu or Teochew people, have settled in Southeast Asia, especially Singapore, Hong Kong, Cambodia and Thailand ; influences they bring can be noted in the cuisine of Singapore and that of other settlements.

In some circumstances, mainly depending on the origin and the composition of the raw materials used, the high-temperature calcination process of limestone and clay minerals can release in the atmosphere gases and dust rich in volatile heavy metals, a. o, thallium, cadmium and mercury are the most toxic.

The field of computer music can trace its roots back to the origin of electronic music, and the very first experiments and innovations with electronic instruments at the turn of the 20th century.

Centrifugal force ( from Latin centrum " center " and fugere " to flee ") can generally be any force directed outward relative to some origin.

In the case of a central force, relative to the origin of the polar coordinate system, can be replaced by, meaning the entire force is the component in the radial direction.

which can be recognized as a circular path around the origin with radius α.

He said that his information was so secret that he would not be able to confide in me the origin of his pipeline tip.

The low intensity of the radiation from Saturn has limited observations, but again the measured radiation seems to be consistent with a thermal origin.

Now, with virtually every writer, not only was the European origin of public law acknowledged as a historical phenomenon, but the rules thus established by the advanced civilizations of Europe were to be imposed on others.

by means of an origin statement which refers to an actual address, the corresponding index word will be reserved.

Anatolia has been proposed to be the origin of the Indo-European language family.

In the absence of other evidence to show the origin of these curious relics of antiquity the occurrence of a name known as Basilidian on patristic authority has not unnaturally been taken as a sufficient mark of origin, and the early collectors and critics assumed this whole group to be the work of Gnostics.

While it would be rash to assert positively that no existing gems were the work of Gnostics, there is no valid reason for attributing any or all of them to such an origin.

Perhaps the word may be included among those mysterious expressions discussed by Adolf von Harnack, “ which belong to no known speech, and by their singular collocation of vowels and consonants give evidence that they belong to some mystic dialect, or take their origin from some supposed divine inspiration .”

Alexander Balas (), ruler of the Greek Seleucid kingdom in 150 – 146 BC, was a native of Smyrna of humble origin, but gave himself out to be the son of Antiochus IV Epiphanes and Laodice IV and heir to the Seleucid throne.

Zainab was the daughter of a wealthy merchant from Houara ( a Masmuda tribe ), who is said to be from Kairouan in origin.

In other cases, an allophone may be chosen to represent its phoneme because it is more common in the world's languages than the other allophones, because it reflects the historical origin of the phoneme, or because it gives a more balanced look to a chart of the phonemic inventory.

The samples they collected there, although their origin is still not certain, are, according to geologist Don Wilhelms, " a reasonable bet to be Descartes.

The following year, The Guardian challenged the succession law in court, claiming that it violated the European Convention on Human Rights, which provides " The enjoyment of the rights and freedoms set forth in this Convention shall be secured without discrimination on any ground such as sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status.

MCP received this order from the Dutch government because their computer met all the technical and other demands, including the demand that the computers should be of Dutch origin and should be built in the Netherlands.

Although asado is eaten all over the country, its origin may be traced back to the Pampas.

The origin of the name is a mystery but is believed to be aboriginal.

The origin of the word bunyip has been traced to the Wemba-Wemba or Wergaia language of Aboriginal people of South-Eastern Australia.

The origin of the ritual of the rex Nemorensis should have to be traced to the legend of Orestes and Iphigenia more than that of Hippolitos.

The origin of the Darwin Awards can be traced back to posts on Usenet group discussions as early as 1985.

The national Coat of Arms of Estonia, three blue lions on a golden shield, is almost identical to the Coat of Arms of Denmark, and its origin can be traced directly back to King Valdemar II and Danish rule in Estonia 1219-1346.

The origin of Christianity can also be traced through Koine Greek, as the Apostles used it to preach in Greece and the Greek-speaking world.

Words of non-Indo-European origin can be traced into Greek from as early as Mycenaean times ; they include a large number of Greek toponyms.

Though details of genealogy differ from one ancient author to another, the cultural significance of the mythic theme, that the descendants of Heracles, exiled after his death, returned after some generations in order to reclaim land that their ancestors had held in Mycenaean Greece, was to assert the primal legitimacy of a traditional ruling clan that traced its origin, thus its legitimacy, to Heracles.

The origin of letterboxing can be traced to Dartmoor, Devon, England in 1854.

Their origin can be traced back to the early Gulf of Mexico, when the shallow ocean had high rates of evaporation.

In this way, word roots have been found that can be traced all the way back to the origin of, for instance, the Proto Indo-European language.

The origin of race based politics can be traced back to independence of Malaysia from United Kingdom, who wanted all citizens of Malaysia to be equal upon independence, instead of dominance by Malays.

The people of the Marshall Islands are of Micronesian origin, which is traced to a combination of peoples who emigrated from Southeast Asia in the remote past.

The second most popular theory about the origin and sense of Mieszko's name can be traced to the very old legend, firstly described by Gallus Anonymus, according to which Mesco ( the Latinized form used by the earliest sources ) was blind during his first seven years of life.

The origin myth of the kingdom of Alba traced its foundation to the supposed destruction of Pictland by Kenneth MacAlpin, and its kings were chosen from the male line descendants of Kenneth, with the possible exception of the shadowy Eochaid, said to be Kenneth's daughter's son.

Many Spanish proverbs have a long history of cultural diffusion ; there are proverbs, for example, that have their origin traced to Babylon and that have come down to us through Greece and Rome ; equivalents of the Spanish proverb “ En boca cerrada no entran moscas ” ( Silence is golden ) belong to the cultural tradition of many north-African countries as far as Ethiopia ; having gone through multiple languages and millennia, this proverb can be traced back to an ancient Babylonian proverb.

The origin of the Statue of Liberty project is sometimes traced to a comment made by French law professor and politician Édouard René de Laboulaye in mid-1865.

The Romans later traced their origin to Aeneas, one of the Trojans, who was said to have led the surviving Trojans to modern day Italy.

In addition to its origin in ritual, Yoruba theatre can be " traced to the ' theatrogenic ' nature of a number of the deities in the Yoruba pantheon, such as Obatala the arch divinity, Ogun the divinity of creativeness and Sango the divinity of the storm ", whose reverence is imbued " with drama and theatre and the symbolic overall relevance in terms of its relative interpretation.

Cases in which there is some likelihood that at least a partial inspiration has been located include " The Death Car ," traced by Richard Dorson to Michigan, United States ; " the Solid Cement Cadillac " and the possible origin of " The Hook " in the 1946 series of Lovers ' Lane murders in Texarkana, Texas, USA.

The system of dividing students into nations according to origin can ultimately be traced back to the nations at the medieval University of Paris and other early medieval universities, but the Uppsala nations appear only about 1630 – 1640, most likely under influence of the Landsmannschaften which existed at some of the German universities visited by Swedish students.

The origin of the name is usually traced back to the Turkic " Sary-Su " ( yellow water ) or " Sary-Sin " ( yellow island ).

The term " artificial reality ", coined by Myron Krueger, has been in use since the 1970s ; however, the origin of the term " virtual reality " can be traced back to the French playwright, poet, actor, and director Antonin Artaud.