Gifting Anthro Paper

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History

 

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Marla W

 

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February 8, 2014

 

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University

 

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A

 

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For some societies, gifting and exchange are so embedded into their culture as means of survival and adaptation that nearly all social, economic, and political relationships are based on some form of gifting. These gifting relationships are often constructed with the intention of making strategic social connections that will provide some form of reciprocity...
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Although it is engrained in our American culture that gifting is meant to be completely altruistic, most people would argue that there is always either a conscious or a subconscious expectation of reciprocity. From a young age, parents teach their children the virtues of generosity over greed and that “it is better to give than to receive,” yet even grown men and women continue to use seemingly altruistic acts of kindness in order to manipulate situations in their favor...
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