potlatch in English
noun
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(among North American Indian peoples of the northwest coast) an opulent ceremonial feast at which possessions are given away or destroyed to display wealth or enhance prestige.
In the society of survival, where the agonistic and vertiginous play of the potlatch is displaced by accumulation, an awareness of this has a deleterious effect on humanity.
verb
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hold a potlatch.
As I showed previously, this was possible due to their strong system of private property rights enforced through sophisticated reciprocity relations known as potlatching .
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1. An alpha version of Potlatch 2, a complete reimplementation of the software, was published in summer 2010.