The Gift Expanded Edition (Paperback)

Marcel Maussen

ISBN 10: 0990505006 / ISBN 13: 9780990505006

Published by HAU, IL, 2016

About this Item

Paperback. 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 192324 issue of LAnnee 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 essaya gift that keeps on giving. Included alongside the Essay on the Gift are Mauss 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 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 societys 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. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Gift Expanded Edition (Paperback)
• Publisher: HAU, IL
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0990505006
• ISBN 13: 9780990505006
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

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’Année 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 Émile 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.

About the Author

Jane I. Guyer (1943-2024) was 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.