James, Wendy.

Marcel Mauss : A Centenary Tribute. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (272 pages) - Methodology and History in Anthropology Series ; v.1 . - Methodology and History in Anthropology Series .

Intro -- Marcel Mauss -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introductory essay -- Chapter 1. 'One of Us' -- The scholar and his time -- Chapter 2. An Intellectual Self-Portrait -- Chapter 3. Mauss's Jewish Background -- Foundations of Maussian anthropology -- Chapter 4. A Vague but Suggestive Concept -- Chapter 5. The Maussian Shift -- Chapter 6. Derrida's Reading of Mauss -- Critiques of exchange and power -- Chapter 7. Uncertaintites of the 'Obligation to Reciprocate' -- Chapter 8. Mutual Deception -- Chapter 9. Modern Philanthropy -- Chapter 10. Mauss, Dumont, and the Distinction Between Status and Power -- Materiality, body, history -- Chapter 11. The Category of Sustenance -- Chapter 12. The Study of Techniques as an Ideological Challenge -- Chapter 13. Form, Movement, and Posture in Mauss -- Chapter 14. Mauss in Africa -- Select Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

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GN21.M33 M37 1998