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All My Relatives: The Binary Fractals of the GIft Economy

Barbara Alice Mann
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Is capitalism the only system ever to support large-scale, sophisticated cultures? Hell, no! Gift economies have been doing that splendidly, throughout history. In Native North America, they were the right-hand of our constitutional democracies, and still flourish underground.  (more)

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Blood and Breath

Barbara Alice Mann
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Western thought is ill-equipped to grasp Native American thought, unprimed. Fundamental to western culture is the base number of One: one god, one life, one way, one soul, one true love, etc. Native traditions assume a base number of Two. There cannot be One unless there have first been Two. (more)

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