Bøger af Marcel Mauss

When first published, The Gift served as nothing less than an onslaught on contemporary political theory. This edition confirms the continuing relevance of Mauss's highly original perspective.

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Quelle est la règle de droit et d'intérêt qui, dans les sociétés de type arriéré ou archaïque, fait que le présent reçu est obligatoirement rendu ? Quelle force y a-t-il dans la chose qu'on donne qui fait que le donataire la rend ?Considéré comme le père de l'anthropologie française, Marcel Mauss introduit dans cet essai la notion de "fait social total", les échanges et plus particulièrement le don y étant ainsi conçus comme un phénomène social qui recouvre à la fois une dimension économique, politique, religieuse et culturelle.Ce texte, resté célèbre depuis sa première publication en 1923, est ici suivi d'un article intitulé "Les origines de la notion de monnaie".

Das Werk von Marcel Mauss ist in Umfang und Bedeutung immens. Diese zweibändige Ausgabe enthält seine wichtigsten Aufsätze, die sowohl die Ethnologie als auch die Soziologie nachhaltig beeinflussten. Der hier vorliegende 2. Band enthält die Aufsätze - ¿Die Gabe. Form und Funktion des Austauschs in archaischen Gesellschaften¿- ¿Wirkliche und praktische Beziehungen zwischen Soziologie und Psychologie¿- ¿Über die physische Wirkung der von der Gemeinschaft suggerierten Todesvorstellung auf das Individuum (Australien und Neuseeland)¿- ¿Die Techniken des Körpers¿- ¿Eine Kategorie des menschlichen Geistes: Der Begriff der Person und des »Ich«¿

Das Werk von Marcel Mauss ist in Umfang und Bedeutung immens. Diese zweibändige Ausgabe enthält seine wichtigsten Aufsätze, die sowohl die Ethnologie als auch die Soziologie nachhaltig beeinflussten. Der hier vorliegende 1. Band enthält die Aufsätze - ¿Entwurf einer allgemeinen Theorie der Magie¿- ¿Soziale Morphologie. Über den jahreszeitlichen Wandel der Eskimogesellschaften¿

Dans ce classique de la sociologie de la connaissance, Mauss et Durkheim ne s'attaquent à rien de moins qu'au projet de réécrire la table kantienne des catégories : la maîtrise des jugements logiques qu'ils rendent possibles ne sont pas le fruit des seules forces de l'individu, mais ont une origine sociale. Cette hypothèse, ils la testent sur les concepts de genres et d'espèces, et plus généralement sur l'activité scientifique de classes. Ils entendent ainsi établir qu'en Amérique du Nord et chez les Aborigènes d'Australie, tout autant que dans le système divinatoire chinois, stratification sociale et genres naturels primitifs se font écho ; on ne saurait classer les choses sans appartenir à des sociétés structurées. On comprend le profit à tirer de ce constat pour mieux appréhender les activités scientifiques modernes.

Nous réimprimons dans ce volume trois de nos travaux. Le premier seul a paru sous nos deux noms réunis. En raison de circonstances particulières, les deux autres ne portent qu'une seule signature. Tous les trois sont néanmoins le fruit d'une même collaboration.Bien que ces trois mémoires traitent de sujets forts différents, ils ont leur unité. Un certain nombre d'idées directrices les dominent. Dès maintenant nous devons montrer comment s'enchaînent les travaux que nous avons publiés et dans quelle mesure ils contribuent à l'exécution de notre plan. En même temps nous répondrons à quelques-unes des objections qui nous ont été adressées.

The Gift is a short book by the French sociologist Marcel Mauss that is the foundation of social theories of reciprocity and gift exchange.Mauss's original piece was entitled Essai sur le don. Forme et raison de l'échange dans les sociétés archaïques ("An essay on the gift: the form and reason of exchange in archaic societies") and was originally published in L'Année Sociologique in 1925. The essay was later republished in French in 1950 and translated into English in 1954 by Ian Cunnison, in 1990 by W. D. Halls, and in 2016 by Jane I. Guyer. Mauss's essay focuses on the way that the exchange of objects between groups builds relationships between humans.It analyzes the economic practices of various so-called archaic societies and finds that they have a common central practice centered on reciprocal exchange. In them, he finds evidence contrary to the presumptions of modern Western societies about the history and nature of exchange. He shows that early exchange systems center around the obligations to give, to receive, and, most importantly, to reciprocate. They occur between groups, not only individuals, and they are a crucial part of "total phenomena" that work to build not just wealth and alliances but social solidarity because "the gift" pervades all aspects of the society. He uses a comparative method, drawing upon published secondary scholarship on peoples from around the world, but especially the Pacific Northwest (especially potlatch).After examining the reciprocal gift-giving practices of each, he finds in them common features, despite some variation. From the disparate evidence, he builds a case for a foundation to human society based on collective (vs. individual) exchange practices. In so doing, he refutes the English tradition of liberal thought, such as utilitarianism, as distortions of human exchange practices. He concludes by speculating that social welfare programs may be recovering some aspects of the morality of the gift within modern market economies. (wikipedia.org)

Marcel Mauss's writings on techniques and technology are at the forefront of an important anthropological and sociological research tradition, and they also highlight the theoretical and ideological challenges surrounding this field of study.

Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) was the leading social anthropologist in Paris between the world wars, and his Manuel d'ethnographie, dating from that period, is the longest of all his texts. Despite having had four editions in France, the Manuel has hitherto been unavailable in English.

First English translation of Mauss's study of prayer as a social act.

Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) was the leading social anthropologist in Paris between the world wars, and his "Manuel D'ethnographie", is the longest of his texts. This work is based on thirty lectures Mauss delivered each year under the title "Instructions in descriptive ethnography, intended for travelers, administrators and missionaries".

Marcel Mauss's writings on techniques and technology are at the forefront of an important anthropological and sociological research tradition, and they also highlight the theoretical and ideological challenges surrounding this field of study. A selection of Mauss's texts - including his major statements on methodology, on body techniques, on practical reason, on nation and civilisation, on progress, and so forth - are here translated and presented together for the first time, with a discussion of their context, impact and implications. This book will interest scholars and students dealing with the French sociological tradition, and also more generally those concerned with technology and material culture studies in archaeological,anthropological or contemporary settings.

"Seasonal Variations of the Eskimo" was one of the first anthropological texts that adopted a sociological approach to the analysis of a single society.

Marcel Mauss famous "Essay on the Gift" has now returned to its original context. For the first time, this masterpiece essential reading for every student of anthorpology can be read in an updated and annotated English translation alongside the profound works that framed its first publication in the 1923 24 issue of the journal "L Annee Sociologique." Included here are Mauss memorial account of the work of colleagues lost during World War I, and Mauss scholarly reviews of influential works by his contemporaries (Boas, Frazer, Malinowski, Radcliffe-Brown, and others). Now read in the context of its co-publications, the "Essay on the Gift "reveals a complementary whole, a genre of generosity both personal and political: Mauss honor and respect for his fallen colleagues; his aspiration for modern (post-war) society s recuperation of the gift as a mode of repair; and his careful, yet critical, reading of the work of his contemporaries. It was Mauss hope that from this publication, Another seed will fall and germinate. Indeed, there is probably no other work in the history of anthropology that has germinated so great an intellectual flowering. This new translation by anthropologist Jane Guyer, with a critical foreword by anthropologists Jonathan Parry and Maurice Bloch, is certain to become the standard English reference for Marcel Mauss greatest essay setting the scence for a whole new generation of readers to study the gift alongside the erudition, political commitment, and generous collegial exchange that first nourished it into life and growth."

Offers a fascinating snapshot of magic throughout various cultures as well as deep sociological and religious insights still very much relevant today.