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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3654294, member: 57463"]Also at the convention, I joined the International Primitive Money Society. (They have a Facebook page.) Their basic membership is $10 for two years. Robert Leonard and I go back a ways. He helped me with some research for an article on U.S. wildcat banking that I was writing back in the 'nineties. More recently, we have had some exchanges on our different interpretations of the facts he presents in his book on primitive money, <i>Curious Currency</i> (<a href="https://brooklyngallery.com/new-curious-currency-the-story-of-money-from-the-stone-age-to-the-internet-age-2nd-ed-by-robert-d-leonard.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://brooklyngallery.com/new-curious-currency-the-story-of-money-from-the-stone-age-to-the-internet-age-2nd-ed-by-robert-d-leonard.html" rel="nofollow">Brooklyn Galleries here</a>). </p><p><br /></p><p>There are many ways to participate in the hobby and for myself, I like to understand the "why" behind the "what." We should be cautious about projecting ourselves on the past by way of modern "primitive" people. They are as old as we are and are not our ancestors. But the various structures and functions of ritual gift exchange can inform our own understanding of money now and money in the future.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3654294, member: 57463"]Also at the convention, I joined the International Primitive Money Society. (They have a Facebook page.) Their basic membership is $10 for two years. Robert Leonard and I go back a ways. He helped me with some research for an article on U.S. wildcat banking that I was writing back in the 'nineties. More recently, we have had some exchanges on our different interpretations of the facts he presents in his book on primitive money, [I]Curious Currency[/I] ([URL='https://brooklyngallery.com/new-curious-currency-the-story-of-money-from-the-stone-age-to-the-internet-age-2nd-ed-by-robert-d-leonard.html']Brooklyn Galleries here[/URL]). There are many ways to participate in the hobby and for myself, I like to understand the "why" behind the "what." We should be cautious about projecting ourselves on the past by way of modern "primitive" people. They are as old as we are and are not our ancestors. But the various structures and functions of ritual gift exchange can inform our own understanding of money now and money in the future.[/QUOTE]
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