Word: bartering
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...events. Lévi-Strauss's books reflect his conviction that communication is the sine qua non of society, and that speech is only one of many ways by which society explicates itself. Music, art, ritual, myth, religion, literature, cooking, tattooing, the kinship systems founded on intermarriage, the barter of goods and services-all these, and others, can be considered languages by which society is elaborated and maintained...
...Russian banks in the West all rack up tidy annual profits, and they may soon do even better. The Communist bloc, which once operated under a primitive barter system with the West in which each nation accumulated Western currencies on its own, now has a joint International Bank for Economic Cooperation. The bank operates as a kind of Communist central bank, switches currencies among member countries in order to improve trade. The bank's delegates will soon arrive in Zurich to confer with the Wozchod bank with a view to stimulating such trade even more...
...anyway. Since the U.S.-sponsored Havana-to-Miami shuttle flights take out only 850 a week of the 200,000 to 300,000 Cubans who want to get out, the stranded Americans might have to wait four to six years-unless Fidel dreams up something new that he can barter them...
Italy may be prosperous, but it is also almost penniless-thanks mostly to a coin shortage that has put small-change business transactions on a barter basis...
...demands of prison life, says Gilkey, frequently exposed the strict Protestant ethic as legaiism wrapped in hypocrisy. Many of his fellow prisoners were critical of the compound's fundamentalist ministers. On principle, they refused to lend their canteen cards to heavy smokers-but they would not hesitate to barter the cigarettes they got from the Red Cross for extra tins of food. Far more popular were the Roman Catholic missionaries, who generally displayed a spirit of freedom from material wants that enabled them to play a creative, neighbor-helping role in the community...