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Tables of Contents for Marcel Mauss
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
2
Acknowledgements
xi
Introductory essay
Wendy James
1 'One of us': Marcel Mauss and 'English' anthropology
3
26
The scholar and his time
29
34
Marcel Mauss
2 An intellectual self-portrait
29
14
W.S.F. Pickering
3 Mauss's Jewish background: a biographical essay
43
20
Foundations of Maussian anthropology
63
34
Alexander Gofman
4 A vague but suggestive concept: `the total social fact'
63
8
Bruno Karsenti
5 The Maussian shift: a second foundation for sociology in France?
71
12
Tim Jenkins
6 Derrida's reading of Mauss
83
14
Critiques of exchange and power
97
78
Alain Testart
7 Uncertainties of the 'obligation to reciprocate': a critique of Mauss
97
14
Paul Dresch
8 Mutual deception: totality, exchange, and Islam in the Middle East
111
23
Ilana Silber
9 Modern philanthropy: reassessing the viability of a Maussian perspective
134
17
Jonathan Parry
10 Mauss, Dumont, and the distinction between status and power
151
24
Materiality, body, history
175
74
N.J. Allen
11 The category of substance: a Maussian theme revisited
175
17
Nathan Schlanger
12 The study of techniques as an ideological challenge: technology, nation, and humanity in the work of Marcel Mauss
192
21
Claudine Haroche
13 Form, movement, and posture in Mauss: themes for today's anthropology
213
13
Wendy James
14 Mauss in Africa: on time, history, and politics
226
23
Select Bibliography
249
3
A. Reading Mauss in French
249
1
B. Work by Mauss available in English
250
1
C. Selected secondary sources
251
1
Notes on contributors
252
2
Index
254