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Marcel Mauss : a centenary tribute /

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,"...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mauss, Marcel, 1872-1950, James, Wendy, Allen, N. J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 1998.
Colección:Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 1.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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