Twisting the Gift

In this article I reexamine the relationship between gift giving and hierarchy using data about early-20th-century colonial contacts in western Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Dutch colonial officials and European missionaries disrupted prior community and regional exchange patterns and initiated strategic policies of asymmetric interethnic gift giving that elevated European missionaries and officials as political and spiritual sources of power

Colonialism · Economics · Economy · Ethnology · Hierarchy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Asian Studies and History · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Law

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