Research Catalog

Title

The gift / Marcel Mauss ; selected, annotated, and translated by Jane I. Guyer ; foreword by Bill Maurer.

Author

Mauss, Marcel, 1872-1950,

Publication

• Chicago : HAU Books, [2016]
• ©2016

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Additional Authors

• Guyer, Jane I.
• Maurer, Bill, 1968-

Description

xvii, 225 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Scan down a list of essential works in any introduction to anthropology course and you are likely to see Marcel Mauss masterpiece, The Gift. With this new translation, Mauss classic essay is returned to its original context, published alongside the works that framed its first publication in the 1923-24 issue of LAnnee Sociologique. With a critical foreword by Bill Maurer and a new introduction by translator Jane Guyer, this extended edition is certain to become the standard English version of the essay and gift that keeps on giving. Included alongside the "essay on the gift" are Mauss{u2019} memorial accounts of the work of Emile Durkheim and his colleagues who were lost during World War I, as well as his scholarly reviews of influential contemporary such as Franz Boas, J.G. Frazer, Bronislaw Malinowski, and others. Read in the context of these additional pieces, the ?Essay on the Gift? is revealed as a complimentary whole, a gesture of both personal and political generosity: Mauss{u2019} honor for his fallen colleagues; his inspiration for modern societies recuperation of the gift as a mode of repair; and his own careful, yet critical, reading of his intellectual milieu. The result sets the scene for a whole new generation of readers to study this essay alongside pieces that exhibit the erudition, political commitment, and generous collegial exchange that first nursed the essay into life. --Cover.

Uniform Title

Essai sur le don. English

Alternative Title

Essai sur le don.

Subject

• Anthropology
• Ceremonial exchange
• Ceremonial exchange
• Gifts
• Gifts

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Translated from the French.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword -- Translator's introduction -- Part I. In memoriam. In memoriam: the unpublished work of Durkheim and his collaborators -- Part II. Essay on The Gift: the form and sense of exchange in archaic societies -- Part III. Selected reviews.

ISBN

• 9780990505006
• 0990505006

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library