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The Gift Expanded Edition
Contributor(s): Mauss, Marcel (Author), Guyer, Jane I. (Translator)
ISBN: 0990505006     ISBN-13: 9780990505006
Publisher: Hau
OUR PRICE:   $16.15  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: May 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
- Social Science | Customs & Traditions
- Social Science | Essays
Dewey: 394
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 9" (0.85 lbs) 248 pages
 
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Scan down a list of essential works in any introduction to anthropology course and you are likely to see Marcel Mauss' masterpiece, The Gift. With this new translation, Mauss' classic essay is returned to its original context, published alongside the works that framed its first publication in the 1923-24 issue of L'Ann e Sociologique. With a critical foreword by Bill Maurer and a new introduction by translator Jane Guyer, this expanded edition is certain to become the standard English version of the essay--a gift that keeps on giving.

Included alongside the "Essay on the Gift" are Mauss' memorial accounts of the work of mile Durkheim and his colleagues who were lost during World War I, as well as his scholarly reviews of influential contemporaries such as Franz Boas, J. G. Frazer, Bronislaw Malinowski, and others. Read in the context of these additional pieces, the "Essay on the Gift" is revealed as a complementary whole, a gesture of both personal and political generosity: Mauss' honor for his fallen colleagues; his aspiration for modern society's recuperation of the gift as a mode of repair; and his own careful, yet critical, reading of his intellectual milieu. The result sets the scene for a whole new generation of readers to study this essay alongside pieces that exhibit the erudition, political commitment, and generous collegial exchange that first nourished the essay into life.

Contributor Bio(s): Guyer, Jane I.: - Jane I. Guyer is professor emerita at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of many books, including Marginal Gains: Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa, Legacies, Logics, Logistics: Essays in the Anthropology of the Platform Economy, and a new translation of Marcel Mauss's The Gift: Expanded Edition.Mauss, Marcel: - Marcel Mauss (1870-1950) was a French sociologist and founding figure of twentieth-century anthropology.