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According to SH, the restitutions at issue have been effected as veterans’‘wartime service came to appear to them to have left a residual legacy of debt towards the families of the dead soldiers from whom they had appropriated personal belongings as battle trophies’(2008: 776, 779, 783, emphasis added). The question is, where in Mauss’s overall theory of gift exchange would this ‘legacy of debt’properly fit?