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• Reciprocity (cultural anthropology) — In cultural anthropology and sociology, reciprocity is a way of defining people s informal exchange of goods and labour; that is, people s informal economic systems. It is the basis of most non market economies. Since virtually all humans live in …   Wikipedia

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• gift relationship — Social scientists usually regard a gift as an expression of the relationship between donor and recipient. In The Gift (1954) Marcel Mauss argued that gifts are widely obligatory and reciprocal. This behaviour could not be explained in terms of… …   Dictionary of sociology

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