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1002:2022:7.1 [2022/09/06 22:28] – [Is reciprocity a rule?] Ryan Schram (admin)1002:2022:7.1 [2022/09/13 23:10] (current) – [Is reciprocity a rule?] Ryan Schram (admin)
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 ===== Is reciprocity a rule? ===== ===== Is reciprocity a rule? =====
  
-Pierre Bourdieu (1977) says that Mauss’s conclusion that reciprocity is a rule is  because we can only see reciprocity as a clockwork-like system after the fact, in hindsight.+Pierre Bourdieu (1977) says that Mauss concludes that reciprocity is a rule  because he does not consider the time factor. We only see reciprocity as a clockwork-like system after the fact, in hindsight.
  
   * Ongka didn’t know he would receive pigs from followers, or that he would be able to deliver his moka to his rival when he said he would. Something was at risk.   * Ongka didn’t know he would receive pigs from followers, or that he would be able to deliver his moka to his rival when he said he would. Something was at risk.
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 By embodying a social position, people acquire abilities to act that they would not otherwise have. By embodying a social position, people acquire abilities to act that they would not otherwise have.
  
-===== Society as a game =====+===== Society is a game =====
  
 Social life takes place among people on a field of play. Social life takes place among people on a field of play.
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   * You can be a //good// student, family member, employee.   * You can be a //good// student, family member, employee.
-  * Kabyle men are skilled in exchange who win honor in the eyes of their community by the gifts they reciprocate.+  * Kabyle men are //skilled// in exchange. They win honor in the eyes of their community by the gifts they reciprocate.
  
 ==== A thought experiment: When friends ask for money ==== ==== A thought experiment: When friends ask for money ====
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