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The Gift / Marcel Mauss ; selected, annotated, and translated by Jane I. Guyer ; foreword by Bill Maurer.

by Mauss, Marcel, author., Guyer, Jane I., translator, annotator., Maurer, Bill, writer of supplementary textual content.

Chicago : HAU Books, [2016]

xvii, 225 pages ; 23 cm

Expanded edition.

Foreword: "Puzzles and pathways" by Bill Maurer -- Translator's introduction: "The gift that keeps on giving" by Jane I. Guyer -- Part I. In memoriam. In memoriam: the unpublished work of Durkheim and his collaborators -- Emile Durkheim: Scientific courses ; Course on the history of doctrines ; Course in pedagogy -- The collaborators -- Part II. Essay on the gift: the form and sense of exchange in archaic societies -- Introduction: Of the gift and in particular of the obligation to return presents -- Epigraph -- Program -- The method followed -- Prestation, gift, and potlatch -- ch. 1. The gifts exchanged and the obligation to return them (Polynesia) -- Total prestation: maternal goods against masculine goods (Samoa) -- The spirit of the thing given (Maori) -- Other themes: the obligation to give, the obligation to receive -- Note: the present made to men and the present made to the gods -- A note on alms -- ch.2. The extent of this system: liberality, honor, money -- Rules of generosity (Andamans) -- Principles, sense, and intensity of the exchange of gifts (Melanesia): New Caledonia ; Trobriand Islands ; Other Melanesian societies -- The American Northwest: Honor and credit ; The three obligations: to give, to receive, to make a return ; The force of things ; The money of renown -- First conclusion -- ch.3. Survivals of these principles in ancient law and ancient economies -- Personal law and real law (very ancient Roman law): "Scholium": explanation ; Other Indo-European laws -- Classic Hindu law: Theory of the gift -- Germanic law (the pledge and the gift) -- Celtic law -- Chinese law -- ch. 4. Conclusion -- Moral conclusions -- Conclusions of economic sociology and political economy -- Conclusions on general sociology and on ethics -- Part III. Selected reviews -- A selection of reviews by Marcel Mauss -- Full translations: Brown, A.R., "The methods of ethnology and social anthropology" ; Malinowski, B., "The psychology of sex and the foundation of kinship in primitive societies ; Frazer, J.G., "The golden bough" and "Folklore in the Old Testament" ; Parsons, E.C., "American Indian life" ; Radin, P., "The Winnebago tribe" ; Boas, F., "Ethnology of the Kwakiutl" ; Rattray, R. S., "Ashanti" ; Talbot, P. A., "Life in Southern Nigeria" ; Rivers, W. H., "Medicine, magic and religion" -- Excerpts: Frobenius, L., "D?amonen des Sudan, Volksdichtungen aus Ober-Guinea, and Der Kopf als Schicksal" ; Horne, G. and Aiston G., "Savage life in Central Australia" ; Bennett, C.A., "A philosophical study of mysticism" ; Shotwell, J.T., "The religious revolution of today" ; Emmot, F.B., "A short history of Quakerism" -- Index of names.

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 LAnnee Sociologique. With a critical foreword by Bill Maurer and a new introduction by translator Jane Guyer, this extended edition is certain to become the standard English version of the essay and gift that keeps on giving. Included alongside the "essay on the gift" are Mauss{u2019} memorial accounts of the work of Emile Durkheim and his colleagues who were lost during World War I, as well as his scholarly reviews of influential contemporary 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 complimentary whole, a gesture of both personal and political generosity: Mauss{u2019} honor for his fallen colleagues; his inspiration for modern societies 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 nursed the essay into life. --Cover.

Translated from the French.

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