Gift

In the Americas, before colonization, there were 300 million people, more people than there were in all of Europe at the time. Although Europeans tended to interpret the Indigenous economies in the light of their own exchange-based mentality, gift economies were still widespread when the colonizers arrived. (3)
Genevieve Vaughan. Women and the Gift Economy: A Radically Different World is Possible.

How can AnthrApology enact the spirit of gift-economy?

If capital trashed gift economies by seeking free gifts to turn into capital, how can we get outside or beyond this? What amends must be made as part of this process?

Our theatre and performance cultures are heavily marked by capital subjectivation. How can we create performance worlds that protect artists from having to become narcissistic neo-liberal self-promoting cost centres to survive?

How much weaker are our performance cultures because many ethical artists refuse the competitive self-exploitation often required to maintain visibility?

We need to take a leap of imagination, which allows us to look at the market from the outside or better coming from the inside, but taking a position of total skepticism. With the defeat of Patriarchal Communism, it would seem to Patriarchal Capitalism is the only possible economy. However, the perspective of the gift economy allows us to consider the capitalist economy is unnecessary, transient, harmful. (9)
Genevieve Vaughan. Women and the Gift Economy

We conceive of the intensities of our explorations and expression as opportunities for gifts to our audiences.

But we are thieves and fugitives of course as well.