Read Bronislaw Malinowski’s Argonauts of the Western Pacific. He lived with a Tribe in the Trobriand Islands for 2 years and saw they were obsessed with a trade in prestige items, shells and necklaces in particular. They would fantasize about possessing a famous necklace, or an old but coveted...
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