"I store my meat in the belly of my brother."
An Amazon hunter's reply when asked why he didn't hoard his surplus. Physical meat rots. Social bonds do not. The network of reciprocal obligation is the most durable savings account available.
🍓 What if giving everything away is the ultimate survival strategy?
The serviceberry tree has been proving it for 50 million years.
New Heliox episode: The Gift Economy of the Serviceberry
@Bronwyn Found it! This was a beautiful book. I don't know why it hasn't been reprinted. But this is a library discard, and it is damaged. The front cover has broken away from the book block.
But all the pages are there, and I think it will work for remembering how much you loved it. Give me an address and I'll put it in the mail.
Κοινωνικό Στέκι - Στέκι Μεταναστών Χανίων
Κάλεσμα για τη λειτουργία του χαριστικού!
Καλούμε όλες και όλους που θα τους ενδιέφερε να συμμετέχουν και να συμβάλλουν στην αναδιοργάνωση της δομής του χαριστικού παζαριού ρούχων του κοινωνικού στεκιού - στεκιού μεταναστών, το Σάββατο 25 Απριλίου στις 13:00 στο στέκι (αίθουσα στον 2ο όροφο).
Υπάρχει ανάγκη για ξεκαθάρισμα και αναδιοργάνωση του χώρου αλλά και εμπλουτισμού με περισσότερες ημέρες/ώρες λειτουργίας
@neil you're right that #OpenSource depends of a huge community of individuals (and some corporate entities) cooperating together in what is the world's largest #GiftEconomy.
But I think there is a huge difference to being beholden to and dependent on thousands of our own peers — ordinary people of good will who choose to share — than on one corporation whose sole purpose is to extract as much profit from us as they can wring.
We talked to People's Plumbing of Cleveland, who are running their #WorkerCoop on a #GiftEconomy model!
Digesting Food Studies—Episode 116: Social Economy of Food
https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2555303/
Sharing, gifting, and informal economies have been around forever, and they might be seeing a new resurgence that offers promise for the long-term.
This episode helps re-think and reorient ourselves towards creating integrated value exchanges beyond just the financial kind. Alexia Moyer provides gifts from Sandro Botticelli and Catherine Parr Traill, and guest editor Irena Knezevic talks about “The social and informal economy of food” issue of Canadian Food Studies. (https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i3).
Finally, Christophe Dubois shares his thoughts on social gastronomy and Mary Anne Martin’s use of feminist theory to explore urban agriculture.
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