Verbatim quote · from the corpus

“The Big Man is the first to usurp the center and take upon himself the responsibility for distribution: within the gift economy he was eventually able to so smother his rivals with gifts as to bankrupt them, so to speak, thereby turning his entire relation to the community as a whole into a gift economy.”

— Adam Katz, Way, Way, After Sacral Kingship · Jul 2018 · GABlog