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inalienable wealth/inalienable possessions  

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  • Inalienable wealth, or inalienable possessions, according to Carolyn Folkman Curasi, Linda L. Price, and Eric J. Arnould, refers to a particular category of possessions: those items that should not be given away or sold but that are instead maintained from generation to generation, within the tight boundaries of their owning family, clan, or group. Objects in this special category of possessions remain inalienably attached to their original owner, even long after the object has been transferred from that individual. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture; Inalienable Wealth/Inalienable Possessions]

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