Research Catalog

Title

On prayer / Marcel Mauss ; translated by Susan Leslie ; edited and with and introduction by W.S.F. Pickering and concluding remarks by Howard Morphy.

Author

Mauss, Marcel, 1872-1950

Publication

New York : Durkheim Press/Berghahn Books, 2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pickering, W. S. F.
• Morphy, Howard.

Description

158 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) never completed his Doctoral thesis on prayer. Yet his scarcely mentioned text of 176 pages (Books I and II), which was 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. This is the first English translation to be published It is preceded by a general introduction by W. S. F. Pickering and finally a commentary on Mauss's use of ethnographic material."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Prière. English

Alternative Title

Prière.

Subject

• Prayer
• Religion and sociology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [97]-136) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Presentation, Notes and Referencing -- Introduction to an Unfinished Work / W. S. F. Pickering -- Marcel Mauss: On Prayer -- Ch. 1. General Introduction -- Ch. 3. Intitial Definition -- Bk. II. The Nature of Elementary Oral Rites -- Ch. 1. The History of the Question and Delineation of the Subject -- Ch. 2. Do Prayers Exist in Australia? -- Ch. 3. The Formulae of the Intichiuma -- Mauss's Review of Segond's book on Prayer -- Some Concluding Anthropological Reflections / Howard Morphy.

ISBN

157181633X (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003051812

OCLC

52258363

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library