Tag: meneley

• The poison in the gift: The problem with debt

  

  The modern-day financial credit systems in North America and Chile closely resemble older forms of gift exchange, especially when considering the qualities inherent in all gift societies’ system of exchange. Mauss argues that all valuable objects in gift economies are due to its inherent ability to attach itself to persons, for example through identity or history (Graeber, 2001). However, Graeber affirms…

  April Marie Canillo

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  Undergraduate Research Papers

  anthropology, bloch, chile, credit, cultural anthropology, debt, domestic relations, economy, exchange, gift, graeber, greece, han, hau, hierarchy, mauss, meneley, money, mortality, parry, potlach, social, spirit, the gift, tournaments of value, yemen