When I was being trained, if you can call it that, as an anthropologist years ago, there was a focus on kinship and family, however, constructed, because, in these relations, it was imagined, were conjured obligations of gift-giving, aid, and favors, what were called forms of reciprocity. From these networks of kin and reciprocity threads of trust were spun and extended, models for a spiderweb of relationship, of bonding and bridging capital, out of which community was made - a rosy picture. Over the past half-century, anthropology has now a darker view,

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The Saint Magnus Street Tapes are a Confabulated Communities Production. Produced, written, and narrated by Jonathan Church.

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