For-Giving Table of Contents



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	Foreword 9 Thanks 12 Apology 19 Chapter 1 Where to Start 23 Co-creation of Patriarchy 27 The Gift Paradigm 30 Exchange 32 Chapter 2 Language and Giving 35 Words as Gifts 37 Relationship 38 General and Particular Processes 40 Giftgiving is the Ur-logic 41 Transparency and Giving-Way 45 Transitivity 47 Chapter 3 Reciprocity 49 Is Reciprocity Exchange or Turn-Taking? 53 Women are the Vanguard 56 Many Gifts 59 Chapter 4 Definitions and Exchange 63 Origin of Exchange 69 Restoring Gifts to the Definition 70 Equivalence 71 Giftgiving at Both Levels 73 The Sentence Tree (or Root) Diagram 76 Masculation 78		Chapter 5 The Concept of Man 83 One-Many 83 The Privileged One 88 The Incarnate Word 93 Chapter 6 'Marksist' Categories 95 Over-Valuing Substitution 98 A Divided Community 99 Family Values 100 Genderless Categories 103 'Hum' 104 A Personal Experiment 107 Chapter 7 The Collective Source 109 Environmental Niches 110 Starting with the World 113 Starting with Words 114 'Meaning' 115 Parasitic Relations 119 Many 'One-Manies' 122 Light and Shadow 123 Chapter 8 Castration Envy 130 Property and Money 130 Labor and Money 132 The Primordial Error 134 Puerarchy 136 Misogyny 137 Nurturing Exchange 138 Chapter 9 Is = $ 141 To Be Meta 143 Being and Money 148 -Page 5-



	Being and the Aberrant Norm 152 Quantitative Material Co-munication 154 Chapter 10 Value 157 "Gracias a la Vida" 157 Creative Receptivity and the Giving 'Grain' 158 Value, a Meta Gift 163 Value Modes 165 Nurturing Value Attribution 165 Language Value Attribution 168 Masculated Value Attribution 171 Exchange Value 173 Re-present-ation 176 Chapter 11 Shifting into Exchange 181 Chapter 12 Giving Value to Exchange 187 Giving to the Market 187 Giving Value 191 Hierarchies and Makeshift Communities 192 Giving the Givers 196 For-Giving 198 Supporting the Alien Noncommunity 200 Chapter 13 Market and Gender 205 An Altered Reality 205 A Self-Replicating Parasite on the Tree of Life 207 Being and Having 209 Owning the Value 'Sample' 211 The Social Nexus: Male Sexuality Overtakes Mothering 214 Acting Out Masculation in the Market 218 A Collective Psychosis 219
			The Long Arm of the Definition of Gender 221 Profit 223 Having More 224 Punishment by Scarcity 226 Chapter 14 Deserving to Exist 229 Human Contradictions in the Market 229 The Definition as Model: Another Turn of the Self-Similar Screw 232 Self-Similar vs. Other-Tending Selfhood 239 Thinking and Being 241 Being is Masculine 244 Existence by Proxy 246 Being Balanced 247 The Creation of Scarcity By Those Who Deserve to Exist 249 Does Giftgiving Exist? 253 Chapter 15 Pointing and Patriarchy 263 Icon and Index 265 Missing the Point 269 Symbolic Points 273 Verbal and Non-Verbal Pointers 275 Symbolic Artifacts 278 Shifting into Context 280 Chapter 16 The Point of the Ego 283 Free (Masculated) Will 284 The Salary and the Ego 286 (Hetero) Sexuality and Killing 288 Shooting 290 Giftgiving Versus the Hall-of-Mirrors 294 Destination 296 Changing Hands 297 -Page 6-