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Two Types of Reciprocity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

C. R. Hallpike
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Extract

The purpose of this paper is to argue that reciprocity may be of two types: prestations of things and prestations of actions or, expressed in another way, gift exchanges and cooperation. Evidence from two societies will be used to show that each of these two types of reciprocity is appropriate to a different type of society or social situation.

Type
Statements of Theory: Exchange and Decision-Making
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , January 1975 , pp. 113 - 119
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1975

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References

I am grateful to my colleague Dr. J. Barkow for reading a draft of this paper and making some helpful comments upon it.

1 Hallpike, C. R., The Konso of Ethiopia. A Study of the Values of a Cushitic People. Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1972.Google Scholar

2 This expedition began on March 25, 1970, and ended on June 30, 1972. It was sponsored by the Canada Council.