Практико-логически функции на предварителния дар
Practical Logical Functions of the Preliminary Gift

Summary/Abstract: The article explores the practical logical functions in the practice of Kula as described by Marcel Mauss. The practice of preliminary giving is analyzed here as a molecule consisting of separate atomic actions. The analysis of the practical logic of this case of preliminary giving shows that a possible strategy that deprived persons may use to overcome their fractured experience is to use a performative given as a preliminary gift. The problematic of preliminary giving is further elaborated by revealing the differences between preliminary giving in Mauss and the preliminary return gift in Deyan Deyanov. The theorizations of Pierre Bourdieu on the social construction of the male and the female body in Masculine Domination are used in a thought experiment with a literary case taken from Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. In the ‘laboratory’ conditions created by the thought experiment, an inceptive approbation is done of the article’s main claim.

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