Marcel Mauss

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' works 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' 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' work that bear on the analysis

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introductory Essay	p. 1
Marcel Mauss And 'English' Anthropology	p. 3
The Scholar and His Time	p. 27
An Intellectual Self-Portrait	p. 29
A Biographical Essay	p. 43
Foundations Of Maussian Anthropology	p. 61
The 'total Social Fact'	p. 63
A Second Foundation For Sociology in France?	p. 71
Derrida's Reading of Mauss	p. 83
Critiques of Exchange and Power	p. 95
A Critique of Mauss	p. 97
Totality, Exchange, and Islam in The Middle East	p. 111
Reassessing the Viability of a Maussian Perspective	p. 134
Mauss, Dumont, and The Distinction Between Status And Power	p. 151
Materiality, Body, History	p. 173
A Maussian Theme Revisited	p. 175
Technology, Nation, and Humanity in The Work of Marcel Mauss	p. 192
Themes for Today's Anthropology	p. 213
On Time, History, and Politics	p. 226
Select Bibliography	p. 249
Contributors	p. 252
Index	p. 254
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