Neurocognitive Adaptations Designed for Social Exchange
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Instead of keeping things, [!Kung] use them as gifts to express generosity and friendly intent, and to put people under obligation to make return tokens of friendship. . . . In reciprocating, one does not give the same object back again but something of comparable value. Eland fat is a very highly valued gift . . . Toma said that when he had eland fat to give, he took shrewd note of certain objects he might like to have and gave their owners especially generous gifts of fat.
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