ABSTRACT
Trust, cooperation opportunities, and mutual intelligibility are targeted and are meant to be rebuilt. This world of everyday rituals has been admirably described by Erving Goffman and from a slightly different angle by Randall Collins. Only an agreed or contractual exchange may take place under the condition that the other reciprocates. Extraordinary gifts are clearly framed as gifts for the actors, and their risk is obvious to everyone involved. Such an extraordinary gift tries to create bonds and obligations that cannot just be taken for granted. While the concept of the ordinary gift identifies the functioning game of everyday gift practices, the extraordinary gift stands for the attempt to re-establish the game of cooperation. With extraordinary gifts, the relationship is at stake; first and foremost, a basis for trust and cooperation should be created, which in the state of peace of ordinary gifts already has a stable, habitualized base.
