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gatehouse
12y ago
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Side question: in what sense are you saying Ivy league is like a potlatch? Song-and-dance-and-reciprocity? Or conspicuous gift-giving (like "purity potlatch")? Or slave exchange?
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rwallace
12y ago
Signaling relative status by the destruction of valuable resources.
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