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Connector

Summary/Abstract: For describing the essence of mana, Marcel Mauss uses a metaphor of „connector”, which can be considered as a function of a total description of cultural context. This function is well seen if the problem is analyzed via Claude Lévi-Strauss or Jacques Derrida’s texts.The metaphor of connector as „the part of the complexed subject predicate, reducing the content of the predicative expression in terms of the time” can be extended on the anthropological field work problematic. While Malinowski, in his culture research, attempts to think in “whole sentences” in the first place for later “grammatical parsing”, Mauss not having a wider context of the utterance, but owning individual “parts of sentence”, has to emphasize on the element connecting them in the logic completeness. Lévi-Strauss, in turn, according to the structural linguistics rules, searches for “realistic” morphology of the cultures’ sentences. Then, their superficial stratum of their sense is used as a path, that leads straight to the phonological relations tier.Correlated positions triggers the problem of “presence”, which stops being the philosophical question, but has the methodological and contextual character in anthropology.

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