As highlighted, the typical gift economy is expected to receive the gift or gift giving something in return, as governmental support, military functions, allegiance or other gifts and favors. This was common in warrior societies where kings and superior generals given off freely to their foot soldiers waiting to change their loyal service. In these organizations were social laws that penalized those who did not give anything in return. The punishment usually consisted of stop giving gifts to the greedy, but the punishment could also include a bad reputation, be expelled from the challenge to a duel or public ridicule.Hyde argues, somewhat against Mauss, that the gift is no difference between "true" because only as a token of gratitude, and the gift "false" as per prerequisite. from the point of view of Hyde, the real gift unites us beyond the commercial transaction, but we can feel connected to those who give us false gifts. Referring to Alcoholics Anon., which works internally as an economy of Don, Hyde describes a distinctive character: some go immediately to stop drinking the last step: trying to help the rest. Those who have found the gift of sobriety feel an obligation to return the favor ten going around intermediate steps.
It's easy to fantasize about the idea of the gift economy, people do not always like entangled in a web of obligations. Marcel Mauss wrote: "The gift not cut back to one who receives it," .
In many cultures it is frowned upon in making gifts or capital goods. The anthropologist Wendy James noted that among Uduk, a village in northwest Africa, it is conventional that any gift that crosses the border of the clan has to be consumed, you can take advantage of it. For example, given an animal to be eaten, not owned.
In a even giving economy is frequently the type that the shift of talents takes place between more than than two individuals. A narrative of two adult females said that Kashmir Brahmin attempted to fulfill their duties of brotherly love giving gifts to each other. When they passed, became poisoned two seeds from which no one could drink, speculating the futility of this fraud of a gift.
This idea of expanding the circle is seen in societies where huntsmen are animals to the priests, the sacrifice to the gods, which is thought to return lush game. Hunters do not pay them immediately.
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