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A '''potlatch''' is a giving festival, that comes from the culture of indigenous people from the Pacific Northwest of America. The word itself, coming from Chinook Jargon, means ''a gift'' or ''to give away''. | A '''potlatch''' is a giving festival, that comes from the culture of indigenous people from the Pacific Northwest of America. The word itself, coming from Chinook Jargon, means ''a gift'' or ''to give away''. | ||
As opposed to the constant gathering and centralisation of stuff known from capitalistic systems, potlatches serve the redistribution as part of a different economic system. | As opposed to the constant gathering and centralisation of stuff known from capitalistic systems, potlatches serve the redistribution as part of a different economic system. | ||
== See also == | |||
* [[Really Really Free Market]] | |||
== Literature == | == Literature == |
Revision as of 13:02, 3 May 2009
A potlatch is a giving festival, that comes from the culture of indigenous people from the Pacific Northwest of America. The word itself, coming from Chinook Jargon, means a gift or to give away. As opposed to the constant gathering and centralisation of stuff known from capitalistic systems, potlatches serve the redistribution as part of a different economic system.
See also
Literature
Chiefly Feasts: The Enduring Kwakiutl Potlatch by Aldona Jonaitis