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Georges Bataille (1967), The Accursed Share, pp 37–38 and 67.
John Milbank writes, “the chief or king who receives a surplus . . . must repay his debt to the community by expending the surplus in a festive, sacrificial manner, not by reinvesting it in production”. John Milbank, “Can a Gift be Given? Prolegomena to a Future Trinitarian Metaphysic”, Modern Theology, 11, 1, 1995, pp 119–160.
For further reading, see Huizinga (1949).