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38 'represent' something else ((yet rice can either be food or money in SEA & gold can be an ornament or money)) and, Alice notes, money can be a commodity in W. econ. in our society lots of goods & services can't legally be bought e.g. votes, acad. degrees, sex in small societies, many of these powers of social abstraction present to considerable degree in peasant vil debts are: time -- long-term place -- restricted person -- small goods/services -- wide variety 39 Feb 22 - memory of I owe you a debt wh [[which]] can later come back & collect on may be exclusively human at the pt. that exchange starts to be socially disembedded need writing in order to record debts; as long as embedded w/in small group not needed money also allows you to make change when exchanging 2 things which are not exactly equivalent back to Codere: 1. money stuff - is it or is it not valuable in & of itself 2. numerical units - is there plenty of change around, can you make change easily 3. does the society have wts & measures? (govn. may get involved in validating, controlling, backing all this) 4. writing system - valuable for recording debts so you don't have to carry money around 5. interchangeability of money against other things