The Manual of Ethnography / / ed. by Marcel Mauss.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Allen, N. J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Mauss, Marcel,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Publications of the Durkheim Press
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) was the leading social anthropologist in Paris between the world wars, and his Manuel d’ethnographie, dating from that period, is the longest of all his texts. Despite having had four editions in France, the Manuel has hitherto been unavailable in English. This contrasts with his essays, longer and shorter, many of which have long enjoyed the status of classics within anthropology. We are therefore pleased to present, in the English language for the first time, this extraordinary work that is based on the more than thirty lectures Mauss delivered each year under the title “Instructions in descriptive ethnography, intended for travelers, administrators and missionaries.” Despite his dates, Mauss’s treatment of fundamental questions, such as how to conceptualize and classify the range of social phenomena known to us from history and ethnography, has lost none of its freshness.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Conventions Used in Notes -- Introduction -- 1. Preliminary Remarks -- 2. Methods of Observation -- 3. Social Morphology -- 4. Technology -- 5. Aesthetics -- 6. Economic Phenomena -- 7. Jural Phenomena -- 8. Moral Phenomena -- 9. Religious Phenomena -- Indexes