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Marcel Mauss: A Biography
Marcel Fournier
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Description for Marcel Mauss: A Biography
Paperback. Translator(s): Todd, Jane Marie. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 31. Weight in Grams: 736.
This book is the first intellectual biography of Marcel Mauss (1872-1950), the father of modern ethnology and a leading early figure in the French school of sociology. Mauss left a rich intellectual legacy in the social sciences, influencing the work of Claude Levi-Strauss and others. His masterpiece, the 1925 essay The Gift, on reciprocity and gift economies among archaic societies, remains required reading in anthropology, and his work more broadly resonates today with students and scholars in fields from the history of religion to sociology. Mauss taught the first generation of French field researchers in anthropology and helped secure the ... Read more
This book is the first intellectual biography of Marcel Mauss (1872-1950), the father of modern ethnology and a leading early figure in the French school of sociology. Mauss left a rich intellectual legacy in the social sciences, influencing the work of Claude Levi-Strauss and others. His masterpiece, the 1925 essay The Gift, on reciprocity and gift economies among archaic societies, remains required reading in anthropology, and his work more broadly resonates today with students and scholars in fields from the history of religion to sociology. Mauss taught the first generation of French field researchers in anthropology and helped secure the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
709g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691168074
SKU
V9780691168074
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About Marcel Fournier
Marcel Fournier is Professor of Sociology at the Universite de Montreal. This book is his abridgment of his monumental Marcel Mauss, published in France (Fayard, 1994). He is the editor of the international French journal Sociologie et Societes. Jane Marie Todd is the translator of some thirty books, including, most recently, Julia Kristeva's Colette.
Reviews for Marcel Mauss: A Biography
Fournier's book is an intellectual biography rather than just the biography of an intellectual, and has plenty of value to say about Mauss' ideas.
Terry Eagleton, London Review of Books Fournier achieves with flying colors the ambitious goals of intellectual biography ... [T]he book is overall very fluid and engaging. It has great potential as a teaching tool and ... Read more
Terry Eagleton, London Review of Books Fournier achieves with flying colors the ambitious goals of intellectual biography ... [T]he book is overall very fluid and engaging. It has great potential as a teaching tool and ... Read more