ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts covered in the preceding chapter of this book. The pure gift is the impossible occurrence of gratuitous giving, the event of the impossible itself. On the contrary, the gift can be understood only through paradoxes. However, to be exact, not only is the gift more fundamental than exchange but, is ultimately also incompatible with exchange. While exchange may be based on the gift, the gift itself must abhor exchange. Gratuitousness is absolutely necessary for the gift. One could say that in general there are three basic types of gifts. First, about gifts that are exchanged. The purpose of such gifts is to establish a relationship and express communality. Then, besides gifts that are exchanged, gifts that are not exchanged, but given. The next type of gift-objects was met above all in the potlatch, a gift-giving festival or a war of property, where the gift becomes a weapon and a stake in a game.
