The Importance of Mutual Aid

Anthropologist lorraine blackster notes that when some one does a particularly great favor, mutual aid can turn into something else. If a gift demands a return, and no tangible return is possible, the repayment will be through support or esteem. Thus do patron client relations come into being? We have already observed this. The problem is that in all other respects, they are not fundamentally different sorts of people. Most likely, they are both middle aged frenchmen,. citizens of the republic, with similar tastes in music, sports and food.