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... potlatch in which the tables are reversed . The Cultural Ecology of Rivalrous Redistribution Why do the Bushmen esteem a hunter who never draws attention to his generosity , whereas the Kwakiutl and other redistributor peoples esteem a ...
... potlatch in which the tables are reversed . The Cultural Ecology of Rivalrous Redistribution Why do the Bushmen esteem a hunter who never draws attention to his generosity , whereas the Kwakiutl and other redistributor peoples esteem a ...
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... potlatch is : Why did the cultures of the Northwest Coast peoples define potlatching as the means of obtaining prestige ? The answer may be that before the coming of the Europeans , the Kwakiutl potlatch more closely resembled the ...
... potlatch is : Why did the cultures of the Northwest Coast peoples define potlatching as the means of obtaining prestige ? The answer may be that before the coming of the Europeans , the Kwakiutl potlatch more closely resembled the ...
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... potlatch achievements . The larger the pole , the greater the potlatch power , the more the members of poor villages would be tempted to change their residence . Thus the aboriginal potlatch pattern may have been an ecologically ...
... potlatch achievements . The larger the pole , the greater the potlatch power , the more the members of poor villages would be tempted to change their residence . Thus the aboriginal potlatch pattern may have been an ecologically ...
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