Marcel Mauss: A Centenary Tribute

ISBN-13: 9781571817051 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 256 str.

Wendy James

Opis

"Each of the essays in this volume deals with various facets of his work, and all of them should be read." · American Anthropologist"This book offers a unique insight into the influence of one of the disciplines most important theorists. James and Allen are thoughtful editors . . . their respect produces the best form of criticism in fourteen essays by British, and other European, anthropologists . . . This is intriguing and stimulating reading . . . Mausss work receives careful attention in this book which is helpful, incisive, and broadly significant to anthropology." · JRAIMarcel 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 Mausss work 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.Wendy James has taught at the University of Khartoum and has research experience in the Sudan and Ethiopia. She is currently Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford.After studying classics and medicine N. J. Allen qualified in Social Anthropology at Oxford, undertaking fieldwork in Nepal. He is currently Reader in the Social Anthropology of South Asia at the University of Oxford.

Recenzje

"Each of the essays in this volume deals with various facets of his work, and all of them should be read." - American Anthropologist

"This book offers a unique insight into the influence of one of the discipline's most important theorists. James and Allen are thoughtful editors ... their respect produces the best form of criticism in fourteen essays by British, and other European, anthropologists ... This is intriguing and stimulating reading ... Mauss's work receives careful attention in this book which is helpful, incisive, and broadly significant to anthropology." - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)

Spis treści

Preface
Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTORY ESSAY

Chapter 1. 'One of us': Marcel Mauss and 'English' anthropology
Wendy James

THE SCHOLAR AND HIS TIME

Chapter 2. An intellectual self-portrait
Marcel Mauss

Chapter 3. Mauss's Jewish background: a biographical essay
W. S. F. Pickering

FOUNDATIONS OF MAUSSIAN ANTHROPOLOGY

Chapter 4. A vague but suggestive concept: the 'total social fact'
Alexander Gofman

Chapter 5. The Maussian shift: a second foundation for sociology in France?
Bruno Karsenti

Chapter 6. Derrida's reading of Mauss
Tim Jenkins

CRITIQUES OF EXCHANGE AND POWER

Chapter 7. Uncertainties of the 'obligation to reciprocate': a critique of Mauss
Alain Testart

Chapter 8. Mutual deception: totality, exchange, and Islam in the Middle East
Paul Dresch

Chapter 9. Modern philanthropy: reassessing the viability of a Maussian perspective
Ilana Silber

Chapter 10. Mauss, Dumont, and the distinction between status and power Materiality, body, history
Jonathan Parry

MATERIALITY, BODY, HISTORY

Chapter 11. The category of substance: a Maussian theme revisited
N. J. Allen

Chapter 12. The study of techniques as an ideological challenge: technology, nation, and humanity in the work of
Marcel Mauss
Nathan Schlanger

Chapter 13. Form, movement, and posture in Mauss: themes for today's anthropology
Claudine Haroche

Chapter 14. Mauss in Africa: on time, history, and politics
Wendy James

Select Bibliography
A: Reading Mauss in French
B: Work by Mauss available in English
C: Selected secondary sources

Notes on contributors
Index

O autorze

Wendy James has taught at the University of Khartoum and has research experience in the Sudan and Ethiopia. She is currently Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford.

After studying classics and medicine N. J. Allen (1939-2020) qualified in Social Anthropology at Oxford, undertaking fieldwork in Nepal. He was Reader in the Social Anthropology of South Asia at the University of Oxford.