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Avoiding Sharing

Published in Current Anthropology • Mar 9, 2020
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Authors:
Elise Berman

Abstract

Anthropologists frequently treat giving and sharing as primordial prosocial acts—the building blocks of society. Avoiding sharing appears as negative and antisocial. But in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, avoiding sharing is just as social and as important to relationships as sharing. First, a...

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