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Sahlins (1972), p. 37. 21. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/04/the-exchange-david-plotz.html.

Cacilda Jetha • Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships

The Stranger-King or Dumézil among the Fijians by Marshall Sahlins

Hawaiians' authenticity as an autochthonous people was and is often tied to their relationship to land and ocean.

Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire

In his classic 1924 monograph The Gift, Marcel Mauss establishes a strong case against the existence in primitive societies of a free gift. Generally speaking, Mauss said, appropriate gifts and return gifts were quite precisely determined and were enforced through social approbation and obloquy, status and ostracism, and other forms of social

Charles Eisenstein • Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

It is more important to notice that power is not represented here as an in-trinsic social condition. It is a usurpation, in the double sense of a forceful seizure of sovereignty and a sovereign denial of the prevailing moral order. Rather than a normal succession, usurpation itself is the principle of legitimacy.

The Stranger-King or Dumézil among the Fijians by Marshall Sahlins

So anthropology grounds Asya. At the same time, the novel gestures to the discipline’s troubled past, with its colonial underpinnings and tendency to exploit, extract, and other its subjects.

Cara Blue Adams • Infra-ordinary People | Cara Blue Adams

On further reflection, however, it seemed to me that it was perhaps a conceit to think that modern societies had progressed so far beyond Melanesia, since Big Men—that is, politicians who distribute resources to their relatives and supporters—are ubiquitous in the contemporary world, including the U.S. Congress.

Francis Fukuyama • The Origins of Political Order

The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies

Marcel Mauss

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Scholarship does not always advance. Sometimes it slips backwards. A hundred years ago, most social scientists understood that those who live mainly from wild resources were not normally restricted to tiny ‘bands’. As we’ve seen, the assumption that they were only gained ground in the 1960s. In this regard, our earlier invocation of biker gangs and

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Cacilda Jetha • Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships

The Stranger-King or Dumézil among the Fijians by Marshall Sahlins

Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire

Charles Eisenstein • Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

The Stranger-King or Dumézil among the Fijians by Marshall Sahlins

Cara Blue Adams • Infra-ordinary People | Cara Blue Adams

Francis Fukuyama • The Origins of Political Order

The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies

David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity