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Manual of ethnography / Marcel Mauss ; translated by Dominique Lussier ; edited and introduced by N. J. Allen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mauss, Marcel, author.
- Series:
- Publications of the Durkheim Press
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Durkheim Press/Berghahn Books, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) was the leading social anthropologist in Paris between the world wars, and his Manuel d'ethnographie, dating from that period, is the longest of all his texts. Despite having had four editions in France, the Manuel has hitherto been unavailable in English. This contrasts with his essays, longer and shorter, many of which have long enjoyed the status of classics within anthropology. We are therefore pleased to present, in the English language for the first time, this extraordinary work that is based on the more than thirty lectures Mauss delivered each
- Contents:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 Preliminary Remarks; Chapter 2 Methods of Observation; Chapter 3 Social Morphology; Chapter 4 Technology; Chapter 5 Aesthetics; Chapter 6 Economic Phenomena; Chapter 7 Jural Phenomena; Chapter 8 Moral Phenomena; Chapter 9 Religious Phenomena; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780857455536
- 0857455532
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