Marcell Mauss

Marcel Mauss (10 May 1872 – 10 February 1950) was a French sociologist. His academic work traversed the boundaries between sociology and anthropology. His most famous book is Essai sur le don: Forme et raison de l’échange dans les sociétés archaïques, Librairie Félix Alcan, Paris, 1925 [The Gift].

Articles, Papers

• "Les Techniques du corps", Journal de Psychologie 32 (3-4), 1936. (in French). Paper presented at the Société de Psychologie, 17 May 1934. [1] [2]
  • "Le tecniche del corpo", trans. Franco Zannino, in Teoria generale della magia e altri saggi, Torino: Einaudi, 1965. (in Italian)
  • "Técnicas y movimientos corporales ", trans. Teresa Rubio de Martín-Retortillo, in 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. Reprinted in Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter (eds.), Incorporations, New York: Zone Books, 1992, pp 455-477.
  • "Sposoby posługiwania się ciałem", Socjologia i antropologia, Warsaw: Paňstwowe wydawnictwo naukowe, 1973, pp 533-566. Reprinted in Antropologia Kultury: Zagadnienia i Wybór Tekstów, Vol. 1, Warsaw, 2001, pp 156-165. (in Polish)
  • "Die Techniken des Körpers", Soziologie und Anthropologie 2, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1989. (in German)
  • "Техники тела", in Общества, Обмен, Личность, Moscow: Наука, 1996, pp 242-263. (in Russian)
  • "As técnicas do Corpo", trans. Paulo Neves, in Sociologia e antropologia, São Paulo: Cosac & Naify, 2003, pp 399-422. (in Portuguese)

Books by Mauss

• with Henri Hubert, Essai sur la nature et la fonction du sacrifice, 1898.
• with Paul Fauconnetm La sociologie: objet et méthode, 1901.
• Essai sur le don: Forme et raison de l’échange dans les sociétés archaïques, 1924-.

Books about Mauss

• Claude Lévi-Strauss, Introduction to the Work of Marcel Mauss, 1950, 1987
• Marcel Fournier, Marcel Mauss: A Biography, 2005

See also

• Cultural techniques

External links

• Mauss at Wikipedia