On social currencies and human economies: some notes on the violence of equivalence – David Graeber
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On social currencies and human economies: some notes on the violence of equivalence – David Graeber
If you went back in time to a prehistoric village and asked, “how do you solve the coincidence of wants problem?” they’d look at you strangely: “What? We don’t have that problem. If I need grain and my neighbour has it, he gives it to me, and then I owe him one.” This idea, “I owe him one”, is simple and powerful: the fundamental unit of commerce... See more
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Boehm, C., Barclay, H. B., Dentan, R. K., Dupre, M.-C., Hill, J. D., Kent, S., Knauft, B. M., Otterbein, K. F., and Rayner, S. (1993). Egalitarian behavior and reverse dominance hierarchy [and comments and reply]. Current Anthropology , 34(3), 227–254 (b) Graeber, D. (2004). Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology . Prickly Paradigm Press, Chicago,... See more