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the anthropologist Marcel Mauss liked to call the "gift economy" because he was studying American Indians and looking at how certain cultures came up withwhat they call potlatch and that was the opposite of the normal capitalist model of scarcity.In fact, you're supposed to achieve social status and achieve this idea of parody with your peers by giving away things. So the more you gave in certain
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1. Among the Kwakiutl, Chimmesyan, and other Indians of the northwestern coast of North America, a ceremonial distribution by a man of gifts to his own and neighboring tribesmen, often, formerly, to his own impoverishment.
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