A Gabriela Sajetta like: Hospitality:
(from wikipedia): A tto accommodate in propia home city, country a person who normally do not live there. Emile Benveniste in his "Dictionary of Indo-European institutions" by taking into account 's history and etymology of the word host, concludes that the concept of hospitality is based on' idea that a man is linked to another by 'obligation to compensate for a certain performance of which he was beneficiary . L' hospitality then as the type of relationship between individuals and groups is tied to the rituals which consist of a series of exchanges between gifts and against gifts, as a gift always creates the 'obligation in the partner of a greater gift, under a kind of compelling force . E' with a party tied to certain dates and certain cults, an economic phenomenon as a movement of wealth, a link between families, tribes, and even among their discendenti.Questo type of relationship between individuals or groups we find him in the position of potlatch, practiced by Indian populations in the north-west of 'America.La same institution of' greek hospitality exists in the world under a different name, xenia.
fact, for the Greeks was a rule of civil society, a duty rituale.Non existing written laws, the families were regulated by rules shared by oral tutti.L 'hospitality represented a lasting bond of solidarity, which manifested itself in an exchange of goods and favori.Si was obliged to grant hospitality before knowing the 'identity of the foreigner, placed under the protection of Zeus.Il ratio hospitality was sanctioned with a handshake and exchange gifts
