Anthropologists have long been intrigued by "potlatch" - roughly, competitive gift giving - an economic behavior exhibited among tribes of the Pacific Northwest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nancy Scola: Debt and Development, Presidential-Style] Reference

A potlatch is a festival ceremony practiced by many of Canada's indigenous peoples, including the Kwakwaka'wakw and Salish cultures.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

A "potlatch" is a west coast native ceremony in which prestige is gained in the band through the giving away of goods and property.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Potlatch Fair] Reference

A much more appropriate set of descriptive tools might be provided by concepts such as potlatch, carnival, excess, transgression or generosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Integral Options Cafe] Reference

Take the idea of potlatch dinners.    From Wordnik.com.  [ihath] Reference

It was a feast great almost as the potlatch of Ligoun.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE DEATH OF LIGOUN] Reference

Like much of the internets, fandom is a potlatch society.    From Wordnik.com.  [who'll die by fire? who will seek the flame?] Reference

On Saturday, before the potlatch, Kate went back up to the Step.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fine and Bitter Snow]

Actually, primitive societies had Keynesians – google potlatch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » In Defense of Stimulus Waste] Reference

Kate remembered Christie cozying up to Pete Heiman at the potlatch.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fine and Bitter Snow]

In ancient societies, I don't see potlatch as a disincentive to wealth.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Took You So Long?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

One of the things I love about fandom is that, at its best, it's a potlatch society.    From Wordnik.com.  [the cadillacs come creeping through the night and the poison gas] Reference

And when he was very old, being greatest of chiefs and richest of men, he gave a potlatch.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE DEATH OF LIGOUN] Reference

Gift, theorist Marcel Mauss describes potlatch as a characteristic of "archaic societies.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Nancy Scola: Debt and Development, Presidential-Style] Reference

"She potlatch you," explained Senott, supplementing her words with eloquent eyes and hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference

I think he was afraid the guy was going to claim potlatch — or whatever it was — on him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eskimo Rides Shotgun] Reference

And then there were men from far-distant tribes, great travellers and seekers who had heard of the potlatch of.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE DEATH OF LIGOUN] Reference

Kate told her about the potlatch, and the picture, the original of which she had had Jim bring to the hospital.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fine and Bitter Snow]

Is this actually a form of potlatch, in which one gains prestige by the extravagance of the resources one "wastes"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference

For many decades, anthropologists judged potlatch to be either economically irrationality or aggressive one-upmanship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nancy Scola: Debt and Development, Presidential-Style] Reference

Mills is simply repeating the account given by Father Adrien-Gabriel Morice, which she embellishes with reference to the potlatch.    From Wordnik.com.  [He Ain't Heavy, He's My Dead Husband] Reference

potlatch means "a giving," and John Fox's intention was to signalize his marriage with Lit-lit by a potlatch as generous as she was good - looking.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE MARRIAGE TO LIT-LIT] Reference

At the heart of their culture are complex potlatch gift-giving ceremonies featuring ceremonial story/dances serving as a bridge between the human and unseen spiritual worlds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat] Reference

The potlatch is usually preceded by a feast, also provided by the donor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Official Report of the Exploration of the Queen Charlotte Islands for the Government of British Columbia] Reference

F/OSS development is some kind of happy, Kumbaya potlatch still persists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Channel Register] Reference

The parents usually give a great potlatch, and a feast that lasts many days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legends of Vancouver] Reference

And he, in turn, gave such a potlatch that nothing but tradition can vie with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legends of Vancouver] Reference

Talida people to a potlatch; for the caches were filled with moose meat beyond local consumption.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska] Reference

To: AnAmericanMother; Titan Magroyne; Badeye; apackof2; Shannon; SandRat; arbooz; potlatch; metmom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Because most of the vanity and luxury stuff the rich spend their money on is simply a matter of potlatch display to each other.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

'Then made I preparation for the wedding, and the people that lived even to the east came for the food of the feast and the potlatch token.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Son of the Wolf] Reference