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 known work is Essai sur le don [The Gift].

Literature

Books by Mauss

• with Henri Hubert, Essai sur la nature et la fonction du sacrifice, L’Année sociologique, deuxième année (1897-1898), Paris, 1898, pp. 29-138.
  • Sacrifice: Its Nature and Functions, trans. W. D. Halls, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964.
• with Paul Fauconnet, La sociologie: objet et méthode, 1901.
• Essai sur le don: Forme et raison de l’échange dans les sociétés archaïques, 1925-.
• Manuel d’ethnographie, 1926, Paris: Payot, Éditions sociales, 1967.
  • Manual of Ethnography, trans. Dominique Lussier, New York: Durkheim Press/Berghahn Books, 2007 (in English).

• Sociologie et anthropologie, Presses universitaires de France, 1950; 2003.
  • Sociología y antropología, trans. Teresa Rubio de Martín-Retortillo, Madrid: Técnos, 1979. (Spanish)
  • Sociologia e antropologia, trans. Paulo Neves, São Paulo: Cosac Naify, 2003. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Sosyoloji ve antropoloji, trans. Özcan Doğan, Ankara: Doğubatı, n.d. (Turkish)

• Œuvres [Works], 3 Vols, Paris: Minuit, 1968-1969.
• More.

Articles and Papers by Mauss

• "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)

Articles, Papers on Mauss

• Seth Leacock, "The Ethnological Theory of Marcel Mauss", American Anthropologist, no. 56, 1954:58-71.

Books on Mauss

• Claude Lévi-Strauss, Introduction a l'oeuvre de Marcel Mauss, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1950.
  • Introduction to the Work of Marcel Mauss, trans. Felicity Baker, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987.
• Marcel Fournier, Marcel Mauss: A Biography, 2005.

See also

• Cultural techniques

Links

• Mauss at Wikipedia
• Mauss at Encyclopaedia britannica
• http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Marcel_Mauss.aspx