Marcel Mauss

Marcel Mauss (10 May 1872 – 10 February 1950) was a French sociologist who contributed to the foundation of anthropology.

Works

On techniques and technology

• "Les techniques du corps", Journal de Psychologie 32:3-4 (1935), pp 271-293; repr. in Mauss, Sociologie et anthropologie, 1950; 1973. Paper presented at the Société de Psychologie, 17 May 1934. (in French) [1] [2]
  • "Le tecniche del corpo", trans. Franco Zannino, in Teoria generale della magia e altri saggi, Turin: Einaudi, 1965. (in Italian)
  • "Técnicas y movimientos corporales", trans. Teresa Rubio de Martín-Retortillo, in Mauss, Sociología y antropología, Madrid: Tecnos, 1971, pp 337-356. (in Spanish)
  • "Techniques of the Body", trans. Ben Brewster, Economy and Society 2:1 (1973), pp 70-88; repr. in Incorporations, eds. Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter, New York: Zone Books, 1992, pp 455-477.
  • "Sposoby posługiwania się ciałem", in Mauss, Socjologia i antropologia, Warsaw: PWN, 1973, pp 533-566; abridged repr. in Antropologia kultury. Zagadnienia i wybór tekstów, I, Warsaw: WUW, 2001, pp 201-211. (in Polish)
  • "Die Techniken des Körpers", in Mauss, Soziologie und Anthropologie, 2, Munich: Hanser, 1975, pp 197-220; repr., Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1989, pp 197-220. (in German)
  • "Techniki tela" [Техники тела], in Moss, Общества, Обмен, Личность, Moscow: Nauka, 1996, pp 242-263. (in Russian)
  • "As técnicas do corpo", trans. Paulo Neves, in Mauss, Sociologia e antropologia, São Paulo: Cosac & Naify, 2003, pp 399-422. (in Portuguese) [3]
• "Les techniques et la technologie", in Mauss, Oeuvres, 3, pp 250-256. (in French)
• "La nation" [1920], in Mauss, Oeuvres, 3, p 573ff. (in French)

Bibliography

• Bibliography

Literature

• Nathan Schlanger, "The Study of Techniques as an Ideological Challenge: Technology, Nation, and Humanity in the Work of Marcel Mauss", in Marcel Mauss: A Centenary Tribute, eds. Wendy James and N.J. Allen, Berghahn Books, 1998, pp 192-212. [4]