The Gift Economy
People are always asking me to blog more often, well here i go, I searched for some info on ’stamp exchange’.
… nd maybe, most notably, that its very simple product has to be delivered personally or be sent by plain old postal mail. With a 42-cent stamp, too. … But Malinowski’s big insight about trade-that it involves not only direct bargaining for what you want, but an indirect reciprocal exchange in which each party transmits g…
I tried several more searches on ’stamp exchange’ but after 10 minutes I got lazy, gave up and posted this entry to ‘War Stamps’. Still, I think it was an interesting time.
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