Just look at all this other stuff - it will make you feel better about the conflagration outside your door

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      8 hours ago

      It was in my Anthropology book, I will have to go dig around for it. I tried a Google search but all I could get was crap.

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        7 hours ago

        It’s just one of those things that sounds sorta believable and has a feel good message but a lot of those are actually bunk

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          11 minutes ago

          No, I remember reading it. There is a lot of niche knowledge you cannot find on the Internet easily.

          There are a lot of African traditions around gift giving (like potlatch) and redistribution of wealth as well as concepts of collective wealth (Ubuntu). Here is an article that talks about it, but does not mention the specific tribe I was thinking about. https://www.sociostudies.org/journal/articles/3600660/

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            With the article being rather long, does it mention the particular tradition talked about here? I don’t doubt you’ve read it, I am just skeptical if it is a real tradition. And it’s hard to gauge that with no info