Marcel Mauss : : A Centenary Tribute / / ed. by Wendy James, N. J. Allen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Allen, N. J.,; Dresch, Paul,; Gofman, Alexander,; Haroche, Claudine,; James, Wendy,; Jenkins, Tim,; Karsenti, Bruno,; Mauss, Marcel,; Nja, Wj.,; Parry, Jonathan P.,; Pickering, W. S. F.,; Schlanger, Nathan,; Silber, Ilana,; Testart, Alain,
• HerausgeberIn: Allen, N. J.,; James, Wendy,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [1998]; ©1998
• Año de Publicación: 1998
• Lenguaje: English
• Colección: Methodology & History in Anthropology ; 1
• Descripción Física: 1 online resource (256 p.)

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,"...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• 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. UNCERTAINTIES 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 SUBSTANCE
• 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
• A. Reading Mauss in French
• B. Work by Mauss available in English
• C. Selected secondary sources
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX