<DIV>No, I didn't. But I didn't want to make him think that I was giving him charity. Have you read Maus, The Gift? About complex pattterns of recipocal gift-giving in stone age societies. Very interesting. Also Sahlins has some stuff on this. I don't know all this very well. Perhaps Charles Brown could help out here. He studied anthro with Sahlins, I believe. Right Charles? jks<BR><BR><B><I>Bill Bartlett <billbartlett@enterprize.net.au></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">At 10:20 AM -0700 9/6/03, andie nachgeborenen wrote:<BR><BR>>He didn't make the stuff for profit, doesn't sell it on a market, the "price" is determined by his extrinsic needs, and I'd have given him the $ anyway. Does that sound like commerce to you? jks<BR><BR>Not to him, no. But you were making the case that your gifts to him had some relationship to his gifts to you. I got the impression from that, that you felt some need to give value in return. I'm not having a go at you, just drawing attention to an innocent pattern of thought.<BR><BR>Bill Bartlett<BR>Bracknell Tas<BR>___________________________________<BR>http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><p><hr SIZE=1>
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