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Chapter VI Launching of a Canoe and Ceremonial Visiting—Tribal Economics in the Trobriands

same free access to all the necessities, is there any need to exchange them? Why give a basketful of fruit or vegetables, if everybody has practically the same quantity and the same means of procuring it? Why make a present of it, if it cannot be returned except in the

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