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Napier Demonstrates How Non-western Exchange Practices And Beliefs Can Redress The Ills Of Contemporary Economic Systems In Which Our Relationship To Material Things Transforms Animate Elements Of Social Life Into Inanimate Commodities. Such Processes Separate Objects From Domains Of Deep Meaning And Release Individuals From The Moral Relationships On Which Feelings Of Attachment, Community Responsibility, And A Sense Of Place Depend. A. David Napier. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.