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Science is a potlatch culture.
Notice the huge wooden feast dishes, big as bathtubs, for dispensing food at the great “potlatch” ceremonies at which the tribes proclaimed their greatness by the munificence of their hospitality (see page 35).
The bigger one's gift to the common pool of knowledge and techniques, the higher one's status, just as in the potlatch culture of the Native Americans of the northwest coast of North America.
Today, potlatch is back in the open, updated with transistor radios and other household appliances; the blankets are now electric.
Derived from the Nootka Indian word patschatl, meaning “to give,” the potlatch traditionally enabled a chief to demonstrate his prestige to neighboring tribes.