Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: marcel mauss

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  • THE GIFT
    MARCEL MAUSS
    In this, his most famous work, Marcel Mauss presented to the world a book which revolutionized our understanding of some of the basic structures of society. By identifying the complex web of exchange and obligation involved in the act of giving, Mauss called into question many of our social conventions and economic systems. In a world rife with runaway consumption, The Gift con...

    $520.00

  • SAINTS, HEROES, MYTHS, AND RITES
    MARCEL MAUSS / HENRI HUBERT / ROBERT HERTZ
    Classical Durkheimian Studies of Myth and the Sacred presents English translations of several important essays, some never before translated, by members of the famous Annee sociologique group around Emile Durkheim. These works by Marcel Mauss, Henri Hubert, and Robert Hertz are key contributions to today's growing interest in and reinterpretation of Durkheimian thought on cultu...

    $6,100.00

  • SEASONAL VARIATIONS OF THE ESKIMO
    MARCEL MAUSS
    Seasonal Variations of the Eskimo is one of the first books in anthropology to adopt a sociological approach to the analysis of a single society. Mauss links elements of anthropology and human geography, arguing that geographical factors should be considered in relation to a social context in all its complexity. The work is an illuminating source on the Eskimo and a proto-type ...

    $1,460.00

  • A GENERAL THEORY OF MAGIC
    MARCEL MAUSS
    First written by Marcel Mauss and Henri Humbert in 1902, A General Theory of Magic gained a wide new readership when republished by Mauss in 1950. As a study of magic in 'primitive' societies and its survival today in our thoughts and social actions, it represents what Claude Lévi-Strauss called, in an introduction to that edition, the astonishing modernity of the mind of one o...

    $520.00