On Prayer : : Text and Commentary / / 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 a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2003] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Publications of the Durkheim Press
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Table of Contents:
- 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