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== Contents ==
== Contents ==


=== 4th April, 1965 ===
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[…] I cannot of course give any immanent criticism, such as Harry or Kari might, since I a not of the profession. So what through my mind in reading your paper is naturally of a personal and at some points of a <u>weltanschaunlich</u> kind, and it will be, I am afraid, quite unsystematic. Anyhow, call it, if you like, “personal knowledge”.
| [[From Ilona Duczyńska to George Dalton (4 April 1964)|From Ilona Duczyńska to George Dalton]]
 
| 1964.04.04
[…] A chief may under a big tree redistribute the catch or hunt; or in a modern kolkhoz the proceed comes back to the members in the form of the value of so many labour days. Your formulation seems to fit only something like a theocratic bureaucracy, or the citizen's paying taxes and receiving community services in return, but that is not “an economy”.
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| [[From George Dalton to Ilona Duczyńska and Kari Polanyi-Levitt (4 April 1964)|From George Dalton to Ilona Duczyńska and Kari Polanyi-Levitt]]
 
| 1965.05.19
Part III. K.P. had a regular of policy making or policy {{Page |n°=3}} suggestions, almost akin to Marx's horror of utopian blueprints. The very …
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In the introductory part:  in the list of his loved authors, from whom he learnt, I miss Marx and Maine. Not as if had been a Marxist (Kari is right in her article when she says this bluntly; but he was not a Maine-ist either or a Weber-ist or for that matter, and other-ist. Yet his indebtedness to Marx and to Maine is very great indeed. Personally, I feel that in this list the name of Herskovits is redundant. Karl would have made all acknowledgements where they were due but he did not learn from Herskovits nor think of him with the reverence and love he kept for his heroes of the mind.


=== May 19, 1965 ===
=== May 19, 1965 ===


{{Page |n°=8}} […] Karl asked me to collaborate with him in re-arranging and re-writing T&M. I agreed, but never did because shortly after, the offer to go to Liberia came, and when I returned from Africa in December 1962, …
{{Page |n°=8}} […] Karl asked me to collaborate with him in re-arranging and re-writing T&M. I agreed, but never did because shortly after, the offer to go to Liberia came, and when I returned from Africa in December 1962, …

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KPI Description

Title Correspondence: Ilona Duczynska – George Dalton, 1964-1970
Author Iiona Duczynska, George Dalton
Description File contains hand-written and typed correspondence between Ilona Duczynska and George Dalton. Some letters are addressed to Ilona Duczynska and Kari Polanyi Levitt. Included in the file is also correspondence with A. Dubuc from Université du Quebec (Canada), Natural History Press, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Francesco Giannini & figli publishers pertaining to the possibility of publishing the monograph Primitive, Archaic and Modern Economies. The file also contains copies of letters between professor George Dalton and Hans Zeisel sent to Ilona Duczynska.
URI http://hdl.handle.net/10694/206
Date 1964-1970

Contents

From / to Date Pg
From Ilona Duczyńska to George Dalton 1964.04.04 1-3
From George Dalton to Ilona Duczyńska and Kari Polanyi-Levitt 1965.05.19 8-

May 19, 1965

[8] […] Karl asked me to collaborate with him in re-arranging and re-writing T&M. I agreed, but never did because shortly after, the offer to go to Liberia came, and when I returned from Africa in December 1962, …

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