
MA 11: Maggie Appleton on Open Source as a Gift Economy
Hope in Source
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Anthropology History Story - Solit's Kin of Balanced
Anthropologists have always found that strong gift economies, they always have market economies that are symbiotic with them. The people on the trobriand islands have a gift economy that operates between villages and on each island. So by all giving, they know it's not really a free gift. They know they're going to get something back from the people who are coming round the other side of the circle.
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