On Prayer : : Text and Commentary / / ed. by W. S. F. Pickering.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Morphy, Howard,; Pickering, W.S.F.,
• HerausgeberIn: Pickering, W. S. F.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: Publications of the Durkheim Press
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Presentation, Notes and Referencing --; Introduction to an Unfinished Work --; Marcel Mauss ON PRAYER --; BOOK I --; Chapter 1 General Introduction --; Chapter 2 --; Chapter 3 Initial Definition --; BOOK II THE NATURE OF ELEMENTARY ORAL RITES --; Chapter 1 History of the Question and Delineation of the Subject --; Chapter 2 Do Prayers Exist in Australia? --; Chapter 3 The Formulae of the Intichiuma --; Notes --; Mauss’s Review of Segond’s Book on Prayer --; Some Concluding Anthropological Reflections --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782384755; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782384755
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by W. S. F. Pickering.

Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) never completed his Doctoral thesis on prayer. Yet his scarcely mentioned introduction (Books I and II) of 176 pages and privately printed in 1909, can be seen as some of his most important work. His argument that much of prayer is a social act will be of great interest to anthropologists, sociologists and theologians. Here, the first English translation to be published, is preceded by a general introduction by W.S.F.Pickering and finally a specific commentary on Mauss's use of ethnographic material.