Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss maintain that society is the source of the very categories of human thought. First published in the Année Sociologique in 1903, this classic essay has been translated by Rodney Needham, who also provides a critical introduction."[Primitive Classification] will impress the reader with its quiet elegance, its direct, logical form, its clarity of style, its spirit of careful, yet bold, exploration."—Harry Alpert, American Journal of Sociology "Particularly instructive for anyone who wonders what social anthropology is: how, if at all, it differs from sociology and whether it has any unifying theoretical problem."—F. K. Lehman, American Sociological Review

Primitive Classification

Politics & Social Sciences

Marcel Mauss

Emil Durkheim

Social Sciences

University of Chicago Press

Sacrifice: Its Nature and Function

Religion & Spirituality

Henri Hubert

Christian Books & Bibles

The University of Chicago Press

Since its first publication in English in 1954, The Gift, Marcel Mauss's groundbreaking study of the relation between forms of exchange and social structure, has been acclaimed as a classic among anthropology texts.A brilliant French sociologist and anthropologist, Marcel Mauss (1872?) used case studies of Melanesia, Polynesia, and northwestern North America to demonstrate that gift exchange is a total system at the center of society.

The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies

W.W.Norton&Company

Since its first publication in English in 1954, The Gift, Marcel Mauss's groundbreaking study of the relation between forms of exchange and social structure, has been acclaimed as a classic among anthropology texts.A brilliant French sociologist and anthropologist, Marcel Mauss (1872?) used case studies of Melanesia, Polynesia, and northwestern North America to demonstrate that gift exchange is a total system at the center of society.

The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) never completed his Doctoral thesis on prayer. Yet his scarcely mentioned introduction (Books I and II) of 176 pages and privately printed in 1909, can be seen as some of his most important work. His argument that much of prayer is a social act will be of great interest to anthropologists, sociologists and theologians. Here, the first English translation to be published, is preceded by a general introduction by W.S.F. Pickering and a more specific commentary on Mauss' use of ethnographic material, follows.

Study of Prayer: Text and Context

Berghahn Books

History and Social Anthropology

Taylor&Francis

Excerpt from The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic SocietiesH. Levy-bruhl, 'in Memoriam: Marcel Mauss' in l'année Sociologique, Troisierne Série, 1948 - 49. C. Levi-strauss, 'la Sociologie francaise' in La sociologie da XX siécle, 1947, Vol. 2 (twentieth Century Sociology, 1946, ch. Xvii); 'introduction a l'oeuvre de Marcel Mauss', in Sociologie cl Anthropologie, a collection of some of Mauss's essays published in 1950.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies (Classic Reprint)

Anthropology

Forgotten Books

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