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 ===== Moka is a competitive system =====
-The //moka// and the //potlatch// are systems of total services of an agonistic type.
+The Kawelka //moka// (and the //potlatch// ceremonies of the Pacific Northwest) is a system of total services of an agonistic type.
 Agonistic means that the sides in an exchange are competing to give more services to the other, and to raise the stakes of reciprocity.
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 Gift economies are not simply societies in which there’s a lot of gifts. A gift economy is a society in which reciprocity is a “total social phenomenon.”
-Even societies which have created the possibility of individualism, the the West, still have gifts and still have reciprocity.
+Even societies which have created the possibility of individualism still have gifts and still have reciprocity.
 ===== References and further reading =====