Логики на дара. От локалния традиционен обмен към съвременната глобализация
The Logic of the Gift. From Local Traditional Exchange to Modern Globalization

Summary/Abstract: The first part of the article presents Marcel Mauss’s well-known work An Essay on the Gift. The Form and Reason of Exchange in Archaic Societies. Proceeding from observations and analysis of the forms of the gift, Mauss built a general theory of exchange which would subsequently be continued and commented on by many thinkers in various scientific disciplines. Today there is a whole current of thought, led by Alain Caillé and the journal La Revue du MAUSS, which continues with research on themes related to the gift, utilitarianism, symbolism, etc. Using mathematics and graph theory, Mohamed El Methni formalizes the exchanges designated by Mauss in his Essay. The authors comment on the consequences for anthropology of the obligations „to give, to return, and to receive“ as analyzed by Mauss. The article examines the possibility of shifting and analyzing the corollaries of the theory of the gift in the assimilation of this theoretical approach by various disciplines and in the study of modern societies. Finally the authors raise the question as to how we can view exchanges in Europe, and the phenomenon of globalization faced by our societies.

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