gift-giving behavior is an intriguing, universal behavior that has yet to be interpreted satisfactorily by social scientists. Ever since Marcel Mauss' seminal essay(1924), anthropologists have been fascinated by it. As a form of reciprocity or exchange, gift giving is one of the processes that been integrates a society. Schieffelin(1980) views the giving of gift g gifts as a rhetorical gesture in social communication. Because exchange objects have a symbolic dimension, gift and m gift gi transactions can be understood as expressive statements or movements in the management of meaning: transaction be purcha comes the basic expressive act by which symbols mediate cultural meanings. Gift giving, then, is properly a vehicle of social obligation and political maneuver(Schieffelin logica 1980