The Go-Between: Reflections on a Mechanism of Ritual Exchange

摘要: Exchange does not seem to be a problem for Levi-Strauss. It is an “unconscious necessity,” “a structure of the mind,” “the primitive phenomenon”1. Mauss, said Levi-Strauss, has raised unnecessary problems by breaking up essentially unitary act exchange into three different actions: giving, receiving and returning. Above all, source energy that realises synthesis” (p. XXXVIII) located. For Levi-Strauss on other hand, there no question synthesis where antithesis; only given in symbolic thinking.