Among foraging Ju/’hoansi, for instance, demand sharing was moderated by a subtle grammar of reasonability. No one would expect someone to surrender more than an equal share of the food they were eating and no one would reasonably expect to have the shirt off someone’s back if it was the only shirt they had. They also had a long series of proscriptions and prescriptions regarding precisely who could ask for what from whom, when, and under what circumstances. And, because everyone understood these rules, people rarely made unreasonable requests. As importantly, no one ever resented being asked
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