Lewis Hyde opened The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property by describing a rift in understanding between Pilgrims and Indians. Because the latter expected that gifts would stay in motion, the English called them “Indian givers,” meaning, those who take gifts back.

From the Indian point of view, wrote Hyde, the Pilgrims might have been called “white man keepers (or maybe capitalists, that is, people whose instinct is to remove property from circulation…)

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