Deeper even than the gratitude that engenders reciprocal gift exchange is the sense of mutual aid and common purpose that fuses people into a single unit and has them working together to achieve a joint objective. Then expressions of gratitude convey a sense of distancing rather than of fellowship because mutual aid is a closer form of relationship than is reciprocal gift exchange.
16 May 2011
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