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Contents

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

Marcel Mauss

A Centenary Tribute

Edited by Wendy James and N. J. Allen

256 pages, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-57181-703-7 Hb Published (December 1998)

eISBN 978-1-78920-569-5 eBook