Group items tagged

of the gift as something that must "perish"

strictly egalitarian sharing of all food resources in each atoll.

reciprocal gifts of money, or remittances back to their home community.

the potlatch ritual, where leaders give away large amounts of goods to their followers, strengthening group relations. By sacrificing accumulated wealth, a leader gained a position of honor.

kórima

one's duty to share his wealth with anyone.

some Spanish villages in the 1930s,

a currency-less gift economy where goods and services are produced by workers and distributed in community stores where everyone

is essentially entitled to consume whatever they want or need as "payment" for their production of goods and services.

offering

usually food

the free gift of alms is a religious requirement

tzedakah is a religious obligation that must be performed regardless of financial standing.

information is a nonrival good and can be gifted at practically no cost.[

Traditional scientific research can be thought of as an information gift economy.

reputation

Consumer Gift Systems

music downloading as a system of social solidarity based on gift transactions

open-source software developers have created "a 'gift culture' in which participants compete for prestige by giving time, energy, and creativity away"

Wikipedia

gifts to be a form of reciprocal altruism.

social status is awarded in return

food-sharing is a safeguard against the failure of any individual's daily foraging

concern for the well-being of others

a form of informal insurance

may bring with it social status or other benefits

a traditional gift economy is based on "the obligation to give, the obligation to accept, and the obligation to reciprocate,"

it is "at once economic, juridical, moral, aesthetic, religious, and mythological.

the gift must always move.

a difference between a "true" gift given out of gratitude and a "false" gift given only out of obligation

the "true" gift binds us in a way beyond any commodity transaction, but "we cannot really become bound to those who give us false gifts.

Hyde argues that when a primarily gift-based economy is turned into a commodity-based economy, "the social fabric of the group is invariably destroyed."[

prohibitions against turning gifts into capital

treating gift exchange as barter

treating Kula as barter is considered a disgrace.

commercial goods can generally become gifts, but when gifts become commodities, the gift "...either stops being a gift or else abolishes the boundary...

Contracts of the heart lie outside the law

Sociologist Marcel Mauss

gifts entail obligation and are never 'free'.

it is easy to romanticize a gift economy, humans do not always wish to be enmeshed in a web of obligation

person seeking independence who decides not to accept

There are times when we want to be aliens and strangers.

A gift creates a "feeling bond

Commodity exchange does not

Georges Bataille

to his point of view the structure of gift forms the presupposition for all possible economy

the receiver of the gift to confirm a subjection

practice that bears out different roles for the parts that undertake an action in it, installing in this act of donating the Hegelian dipole of master and slave

anarcho-primitivists and anarcho-communists, believe that variations on a gift economy may be the key to breaking the cycle of poverty.

desire to refashion all of society into a gift economy.

a gift economy as an ideal, with neither money, nor markets, nor central planning

the paradigm of "mutual aid"

mutual benefit is a stronger incentive than mutual strife and is eventually more effective collectively in the long run to drive individuals to produce.

a gift economy stresses the concept of increasing the other's abilities and means of production, which would then (theoretically) increase the ability of the community to reciprocate to the giving individual.

collective shunning where collective groups keep track of other individuals' productivity, rather than leaving each individual having to keep track of the rest of society by him or herself.