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Title Marcel Mauss : a centenary tribute / edited by Wendy James and N.J. Allen
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 1998

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Description 1 online resource
Series Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 1
Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 1.
Contents Intro -- Marcel Mauss -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introductory essay -- Chapter 1. 'One of Us' -- The scholar and his time -- Chapter 2. An Intellectual Self-Portrait -- Chapter 3. Mauss's Jewish Background -- Foundations of Maussian anthropology -- Chapter 4. A Vague but Suggestive Concept -- Chapter 5. The Maussian Shift -- Chapter 6. Derrida's Reading of Mauss -- Critiques of exchange and power -- Chapter 7. Uncertaintites of the 'Obligation to Reciprocate' -- Chapter 8. Mutual Deception -- Chapter 9. Modern Philanthropy
Chapter 10. Mauss, Dumont, and the Distinction Between Status and Power -- Materiality, body, history -- Chapter 11. The Category of Sustenance -- Chapter 12. The Study of Techniques as an Ideological Challenge -- Chapter 13. Form, Movement, and Posture in Mauss -- Chapter 14. Mauss in Africa -- Select Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index
Summary Marcel Mauss, successor of Emile Durkheim and one-time teacher of Claude Levi-Strauss, continues to inspire social scientists across various disciplines. Only selected texts of Mauss's work have been translated into English, but of these, some, as for instance his "Essay on the Gift," have proved of key significance for the development of anthropology internationally. Recently and starting in France, the interest in Mauss's work has increased noticeably as witnessed by several reassessments of its relevance to current social theory. This collection of original essays is the first to introduce the English-language reader to the current re-evaluation of his ideas in continental Europe. Themes include the post-structuralist appraisal of "exchange", the anthropology of the body, practical techniques, gesture systems, the notions of substance, materiality, and the social person. There are fresh insights into comparative politics and history, modern forms of charity, and new readings of some political and historical aspects of Mauss's work that bear on the analysis of regions such as Africa and the Middle East, relatively neglected by the Durkheimian school and by structuralism. This volume is a timely tribute to mark the centenary of Mauss' early work and confirms the continuing relevance of his ideas
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-251) and index
Subject Mauss, Marcel, 1872-1950 -- Congresses
SUBJECT Mauss, Marcel, 1872-1950 fast
Mauss, Marcel 1872-1950 gnd
Mauss, Marcel, 1872-1950 -- Congrès. ram
Mauss, Marcel. swd
Subject Anthropology -- Philosophy -- Congresses
Gifts -- Congresses
Ceremonial exchange -- Congresses
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology
Anthropology -- Philosophy
Ceremonial exchange
Gifts
Culturele antropologie.
Échange cérémoniel -- Congrès.
Don -- Congrès.
Anthropologues -- France -- Congrès.
Anthropologie -- Philosophie -- Congrès.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Mauss, Marcel, 1872-1950.
James, Wendy
Allen, N. J
LC no. 98028121
ISBN 9781789205695
1789205697