1 'One of us': Marcel Mauss and 'English' anthropology
3
(26)
The scholar and his time
29
(34)
Marcel Mauss
2 An intellectual self-portrait
29
(14)
W.S.F. Pickering
3 Mauss's Jewish background: a biographical essay
43
(20)
Foundations of Maussian anthropology
63
(34)
Alexander Gofman
4 A vague but suggestive concept: `the total social fact'
63
(8)
Bruno Karsenti
5 The Maussian shift: a second foundation for sociology in France?
71
(12)
Tim Jenkins
6 Derrida's reading of Mauss
83
(14)
Critiques of exchange and power
97
(78)
Alain Testart
7 Uncertainties of the 'obligation to reciprocate': a critique of Mauss
97
(14)
Paul Dresch
8 Mutual deception: totality, exchange, and Islam in the Middle East
111
(23)
Ilana Silber
9 Modern philanthropy: reassessing the viability of a Maussian perspective
134
(17)
Jonathan Parry
10 Mauss, Dumont, and the distinction between status and power
151
(24)
Materiality, body, history
175
(74)
N.J. Allen
11 The category of substance: a Maussian theme revisited
175
(17)
Nathan Schlanger
12 The study of techniques as an ideological challenge: technology, nation, and humanity in the work of Marcel Mauss
192
(21)
Claudine Haroche
13 Form, movement, and posture in Mauss: themes for today's anthropology
213
(13)
Wendy James
14 Mauss in Africa: on time, history, and politics
226
(23)
Select Bibliography
249
(3)
A. Reading Mauss in French
249
(1)
B. Work by Mauss available in English
250
(1)
C. Selected secondary sources
251
(1)
Notes on contributors
252
(2)
Index
254
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