Table of Contents
Preface Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
Chapter 1. ‘One of us’: Marcel Mauss and ‘English’ anthropology Wendy James
THE SCHOLAR AND HIS TIME
Chapter 2. An intellectual self-portrait Marcel Mauss
Chapter 3. Mauss’s Jewish background: a biographical essay W. S. F. Pickering
FOUNDATIONS OF MAUSSIAN ANTHROPOLOGY
Chapter 4. A vague but suggestive concept: the ‘total social fact’ Alexander Gofman
Chapter 5. The Maussian shift: a second foundation for sociology in France? Bruno Karsenti
Chapter 6. Derrida’s reading of Mauss Tim Jenkins
CRITIQUES OF EXCHANGE AND POWER
Chapter 7. Uncertainties of the ‘obligation to reciprocate’: a critique of Mauss Alain Testart
Chapter 8. Mutual deception: totality, exchange, and Islam in the Middle East Paul Dresch
Chapter 9. Modern philanthropy: reassessing the viability of a Maussian perspective Ilana Silber
Chapter 10. Mauss, Dumont, and the distinction between status and power Materiality, body, history Jonathan Parry
MATERIALITY, BODY, HISTORY
Chapter 11. The category of substance: a Maussian theme revisited N. J. Allen
Chapter 12. The study of techniques as an ideological challenge: technology, nation, and humanity in the work of Marcel Mauss Nathan Schlanger
Chapter 13. Form, movement, and posture in Mauss: themes for today’s anthropology Claudine Haroche
Chapter 14. Mauss in Africa: on time, history, and politics Wendy James
Select Bibliography A: Reading Mauss in French B: Work by Mauss available in English C: Selected secondary sources
Notes on contributors Index
