Thanks for the link, I find the subject fascinating, I'll have to look at it later. Yes we may be arguing different things. Where the anthropologist finds markers of social relations, something like a wedding ring, the economist finds only money, so he finds what he is looking for in other words. The problem is in any tribe, particularly things like land, even animals or anything really are all "owned" collectively and private hoarding is not tolerated, so there is nothing like money or barter, and it is stretching the truth to claim that it is. Even if we look at one of the most coercive and unequal societies to have ever existed, I'm thinking of the Aztecs, no one can ever claim that they used money, not before the Spanish conquest.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/09/david-graeber-on-the-invention-of-money-%E2%80%93-notes-on-sex-adventure-monomaniacal-sociopathy-and-the-true-function-of-economics.html
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