ANT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Tunxis Community College, Potlatch
6 Jan 2021
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Potlatch ceremony of competitive gift giving relations. For kwakiutl, that was the whole point was to bury one"s status and elevate your own in this way. And from what resource base? impossible for them to ever reciprocate in kind. In this way, superiority was established over your opposite. Trobrianders - to give to much was avoided so as not to make bitter once give away was over, they would up and destroy lots of stuff they had piled up and planned to give away. Not only entailed giving away large quantities of goods in a competitive way, but. The impulse in a potlatch was to give so much to your opposite that it would be. Rank is present; a category that has been proposed by morton free that falls midway. Guests (in laws, affines) at a potlatch who accept gifts and by acceptance they. May very well be that that guy is not very successful in mobilizing resources to carry.
