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Derived from the Nootka Indian word patschatl, meaning “to give,” the potlatch traditionally enabled a chief to demonstrate his prestige to neighboring tribes.
While they survive now only in museums, especially in Vancouver (see page 155) the ritual gift giving known as potlatch has re-emerged after years of official prohibition.
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.
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).