{"id":198,"date":"2004-09-18T10:06:10","date_gmt":"2004-09-18T10:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=198"},"modified":"2004-09-18T10:06:10","modified_gmt":"2004-09-18T10:06:10","slug":"the-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2004\/09\/18\/the-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to a !Kung bushman called !Xoma about a custom called <i>hxaro<\/i>, the anthropologist was told:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Hxaro is when I take a thing of value and give it to you. Later, much later, when you find some good thing, you give it to me. When I find something good I will give it to you, and so we will pass the years together<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Asked about what would count as a fair exchange, !Xoma wouldn&#8217;t answer. Would three strings of beads be fair in exchange for a spear? Would two? Would one?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He explained that any return would be acceptable because <i>we don&#8217;t trade with things, we trade with people<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Excerpted from Deborah Tannnen&#8217;s (1990) <i>You just don&#8217;t understand: Men and Women in Conversation<\/i>, which is far better, far more sociolinquistically weighty and far more fun than it probably sounds.<\/p>\n<p>(Mapping of how patterns of hxaro gift exchange between tribes maintain social networks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.de\/~lk\/netvis\/kungindiv.html\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to a !Kung bushman called !Xoma about a custom called hxaro, the anthropologist was told: Hxaro is when I take a thing of value and give it to you. Later, much later, when you find some good thing, you give it to me. When I find something good I will give it to you, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-3c","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}