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man for
(1) a
onnectedness is, in fact, a virtue
bothered. If the clerk always wants to chat
ates should be prohibited
at a gift makes a (2A). The French anthropologist Claude
where. I just want a hacksaw blade.
ss tells of
Léx
(3) seemingly trivial ceremony during a meal in cheap
rants in France. The guests sit at a long, *communal table,
and
each
pour
bottle of wine before his plate. Before the meal begins, a man will
e not into his own glass but into his neighbor's. And his neighbor will
the gesture, filling the first man's empty glass. In an economic sense
has happened.
(4)
No one has any more wine than he had originally.
ety has appeared where there was none before. The French tend to
trangers, but in these little restaurants, strangers find themselves
(5)
close relationship for an hour or more. "A conflict exists," says Lévi-
"not very keen, but real enough to create a state of tension between
of privacy and the fact of community. ... This is the temporary but
ituation resolved by the exchange of wine. It is an * assertion of
which does away with the mutual *uncertainty." Just sitting at the
becomes social life through an exchange of gifts. Further, the
the wine allows another exchange - ( 2C ).
dware store: 金物店
munal: 共用の
hacksaw: (金属を切るために用いる) 弓のこ
uncertainty: 半信半疑
assertion: 表明
