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  • The Gift

    Expanded Edition

    Translated by Jane I. Guyer ...
    by Marcel Mauss ...
    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 L’Année Sociologique. With a critical foreword by Bill Maurer and a new introduction ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Gift

    Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies

    by Marcel Mauss ...
    Translated by Ian Cunnison ...
    The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies (French: Essai sur le don: forme et raison de l'échange dans les sociétés archaïques) is a 1925 essay by the French sociologist Marcel Mauss that is the foundation of social theories of reciprocity and gift exchange.-Print ed. ... Read more

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  • The Gift

    The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies

    by Marcel Mauss ...
    Translated by W.D. Halls ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    In this, his most famous work, Marcel Mauss presented to the world a book which revolutionized our understanding of some of the basic structures of society. By identifying the complex web of exchange and obligation involved in the act of giving, Mauss called into question many of our social conventions and economic systems. In a world rife with runaway consumption, The Gift continues to excite and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • A General Theory of Magic

    by Marcel Mauss ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    First written by Marcel Mauss and Henri Humbert in 1902, A General Theory of Magic gained a wide new readership when republished by Mauss in 1950. As a study of magic in 'primitive' societies and its survival today in our thoughts and social actions, it represents what Claude Lévi-Strauss called, in an introduction to that edition, the astonishing modernity of the mind of one of the century's ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Seasonal Variations of the Eskimo

    A Study in Social Morphology

    by Marcel Mauss ...
    Translated by James J. Fox ...
    Seasonal Variations of the Eskimo is one of the first books in anthropology to adopt a sociological approach to the analysis of a single society. Mauss links elements of anthropology and human geography, arguing that geographical factors should be considered in relation to a social context in all its complexity.The work is an illuminating source on the Eskimo and a proto-type of what an ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Saints, Heroes, Myths, and Rites

    Classical Durkheimian Studies of Religion and Society

    by Marcel Mauss, Henri Hubert, Robert Hertz ...
    Classical Durkheimian Studies of Myth and the Sacred presents English translations of several important essays, some never before translated, by members of the famous Annee sociologique group around Emile Durkheim. These works by Marcel Mauss, Henri Hubert, and Robert Hertz are key contributions to today's growing interest in and reinterpretation of Durkheimian thought on culture, religion, and ... Read more

    $305.00 USD

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  • The Rites of Passage

    by Arnold van Gennep ...
    This classic work of anthropology explores the transitional stages of an individual's life and the societal rituals involved.Arnold van Gennep's masterwork, The Rites of Passage, has been a staple of anthropological education for more than a century. First published in French in 1909, and translated into English by the University of Chicago Press in 1960, this landmark book explores how the life ... Read more

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  • Islands of History

    by Marshall Sahlins ...
    Marshall Sahlins centers these essays on islands—Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand—whose histories have intersected with European history. But he is also concerned with the insular thinking in Western scholarship that creates false dichotomies between past and present, between structure and event, between the individual and society. Sahlins's provocative reflections form a powerful critique of Western ... Read more

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  • Defining Magic

    A Reader

    by Bernd-Christian Otto, Michael Stausberg ...
    Series series Critical Categories in the Study of Religion
    Magic has been an important term in Western history and continues to be an essential topic in the modern academic study of religion, anthropology, sociology, and cultural history. Defining Magic is the first volume to assemble key texts that aim at determining the nature of magic, establish its boundaries and key features, and explain its working. The reader brings together seminal writings from ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The World's Religions: The Study of Religion, Traditional and New Religion

    Edited by Peter Clarke, Stewart Sutherland ...
    Examines the `primitive' (traditional) non -mainstream religion and also 20th century sects such as the Moonies and Scientology. Looks at the `nature' of religion - the general philosophical issues. Written by international specialists. ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Beyond Nature and Culture

    by Philippe Descola ...
    Translated by Janet Lloyd ...
    "Gives to anthropological reflection a new starting point and will become the compulsory reference for all our debates in the years to come." —Claude Lévi-Strauss, on the French editionBeyond Nature and Culture has been a major influence in European intellectual life since its French publication in 2005. Here, finally, it is brought to English-language readers. At its heart is a question central ... Read more

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  • Stone Age Economics

    by Marshall Sahlins ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Since its first publication over forty years ago Marshall Sahlins's Stone Age Economics has established itself as a classic of modern anthropology and arguably one of the founding works of anthropological economics. Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively, Sahlins radically revises traditional views of the hunter-gatherer and so-called primitive societies ... Read more

    $30.99 USD