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.[...]

First written by Marcel Mauss and Henri Humbert in 1902, A General Theory of Magic gained a wide new readership when republished by Mauss in 1950. As a study of magic in 'primitive' societies and its survival today in our thoughts and social actions, it represents what Claude Levi-Strauss called, in[...]

Seasonal Variations of the Eskimo is one of the first books in anthropology to adopt a sociological approach to the analysis of a single society. Mauss links elements of anthropology and human geography, arguing that geographical factors should be considered in relation to a social context in all it[...]

"There is much of interest in this well-presented volume. Mauss's careful discussion of differences among types of oral rites - incantations, spells, invocations - remains instructive." * Social Anthropology "Anthropologists, sociologists and theologians will be grateful for the first English tran[...]

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," have proved of[...]

Den franske forfatteren Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) regnes blant sosialantropologiens grunnleggere og er det sentrale bindeleddet mellom Émile Durkheim og Claude Lévi-Strauss i fransk samfunnsvitenskapelig tradisjon.De to essayene som presenteres her, handler om selvet og kroppen og er de viktigste h[...]

"Ur många synvinklar är Gåvan aktuell också idag ... Gåvan är inte bara en komparativ analys av arkaiska samhällen. Den föreslår också en analys av utveckling. Gåvoinstitutionen har utvecklats från totala prestationer mellan samhällen eller delar av samhällen över kontraktliknande fö[...]