What is the system of exchange among American Indians that involves a competitive giveaway in order to attain social status and distribute goods?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER:
It is the potlatch.
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a. tragedies b. comedies c. mimes d. pantomimes e. circuses
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a. about half b. sixteen c. only one d. only three
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