…THE REFUSAL TO CALCULATE CREDITS AND DEBITS CAN BE FOUND THROUGHOUT THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL LITERATURE ON EGALITARIAN HUNTING SOCIETIES. RATHER THAN SEEING HIMSELF AS HUMAN BECAUSE HE COULD MAKE ECONOMIC CALCULATIONS, THE [INUIT] HUNTER INSISTED THAT BEING TRULY HUMAN MEANT REFUSING TO MAKE SUCH CALCULATIONS, REFUSING TO MEASURE OR REMEMBER WHO HAD WHAT
