No, it's likely the other way around. Europeans interpreting gift exchange as monetary exchange.
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Keep in mind that gift-exchange continues to play important role today (among small networks of friends, etc.)
No, gift exchange as we Westerners understand it played little to no role in these societies.
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Nick, we may be getting bogged down in semantics. What do you think of this: https://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/qr/qr2231.pdf …
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Idea is that money is a substitute for trading histories (open ledger). Related piece: http://andolfatto.blogspot.com/2012/09/evil-is-root-of-all-money.html …
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I think this may be a semantic problem b/c I've read much of your work in the area and am in broad agreement.
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