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Chinese Civilization

By: Marcel Granet

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Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize the most up to date findings and theories of historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and sociologists. This reprinted material is available as a set or in the following groupings: * Prehistory and Historical Ethnography Set of 12: 0-415-15611-4: £800.00 * Greek Civilization Set of 7: 0-415-15612-2: £450.00 * Roman Civilization Set of 6: 0-415-15613-0: £400.00 * Eastern Civilizations Set of 10: 0-415-15614-9: £650.00 * Judaeo-Christian Civilization Set of 4: 0-415-15615-7: £250.00 * European Civilization Set of 11: 0-415-15616-5: £700.00

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1136200169

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Festivals and Songs of Ancient China

By: Marcel Granet

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Festivals and Songs of Ancient China

By: Marcel Granet

Granet’s original work delves deep into the religious and spiritual customs of ancient China by analysing their festivals and songs from the Book of Odes including the original Chinese script. This translation, originally published in 1932, aimed to present Granet’s observations to a wider English readership by omitting the Chinese characters and providing an in-depth insight into one of the most important early civilisations. This title will be of interest to students of Asian studies.

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1317296044

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Marcel Mauss

A Biography

By: Marcel Fournier

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Marcel Mauss

A Biography

By: Marcel Fournier

This book is the first intellectual biography of Marcel Mauss (1872-1950), the father of modern ethnology and a leading early figure in the French school of sociology. Mauss left a rich intellectual legacy in the social sciences, influencing the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss and others. His masterpiece, the 1925 essay The Gift, on reciprocity and gift economies among archaic societies, remains required reading in anthropology, and his work more broadly resonates today with students and scholars in fields from the history of religion to sociology. Mauss taught the first generation of French field researchers in anthropology and helped secure the legacy of his uncle, émile Durkheim, the founder of modern sociology. In Marcel Mauss: A Biography, Marcel Fournier situates Mauss's ideas in their biographical context, focusing not only on the details of Mauss's life but also on the people and the academic milieus with which he was associated in early twentieth-century France. He shows how Mauss--through his writings, teaching, and socialist politics--found himself at the center of the intellectual and political life of his country and of Europe through two world wars. The book addresses, among other topics, the effect of the Dreyfus Affair and the First World War on Mauss's thought, and the inner dynamics of the group of scholars around Mauss and Durkheim at the journal they helped establish, Année Sociologique. The fruit of vast research, Marcel Mauss: A Biography is the life story both of a legendary scholar and of the institutionalization of sociology and anthropology.

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Princeton University Press

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0691168075

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Techniques, Technology and Civilization

By: Marcel Mauss

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Techniques, Technology and Civilization

By: Marcel Mauss

It seems that Mauss's fame has grown in inverse proportion to knowledge of his actual writings. It should therefore be a matter of celebration that his occasional writings on techniques and technology have been published in English...when we look more closely at what Mauss did and did not do, his iconic status may be somewhat tarnished. But his general example still has the power to inspire, and maybe that is what counts." - JRAI "The appearance of these two essays... in English for the first time attests to the continuing interest in Marcel Mauss and the fact that re-readings of his work still provide not only fertile ground for new interpretations of the Durkheimian school in general, but also a source of inspiration for scholars approaching Mauss as a remarkably contemporary voice still speaking in many ways to current issues in sociology and anthropology." - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Marcel Mauss's writings on techniques and technology are at the forefront of an important anthropological and sociological research tradition, and they also highlight the theoretical and ideological challenges surrounding this field of study. A selection of Mauss's texts - including his major statements on methodology, on body techniques, on practical reason, on nation and civilisation, on progress, and so forth - are here translated and presented together for the first time, with a discussion of their context, impact and implications. This book will interest scholars and students dealing with the French sociological tradition, and also more generally those concerned with technology and material culture studies in archaeological, anthropological or contemporary settings. Nathan Schlanger coordinates the AREA project (Archives of European Archaeology) at the INHA, Paris. He has published on prehistoric archaeology, on the technological contributions of Mauss and Leroi-Gourhan, and on the history of archaeology in colonial (African) contexts.

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Berghahn Books

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1571816623

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The Greeks and Us

By: Marcel Detienne

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The Greeks and Us

By: Marcel Detienne

The human race is all too pre-disposed to think in terms of us and them. Europeans have always laid claim to the Ancient Greeks they are our Greeks, our ancestors but their legacy reaches further than we could ever imagine. Their influence stretches from the Japanese to the Cossacks, from Ancient Rome to Indonesia. In this path-breaking new volume, the great French historian Marcel Detienne focuses on Eurocentric approaches which have trumpeted the Greeks and their democratic practices as our ancestors and the superiority of the Western tradition to which they gave rise. He argues that such approaches can be seen as narrow-minded and often covertly nationalistic. Detienne advocates what he calls comparative anthropology which sets out to illuminate the comparisons and contrasts between the beliefs, practices and institutions of different ancient and modern societies. Detienne aims to put the Greeks in perspective among other civilisations and also to look afresh at questions of political structure, literacy, nationhood, intellect and mythology. The work of Marcel Detienne has made an enormous impact on our thinking about the Greeks in areas such as rationality, literacy and mythology, and in this new volume he challenges once again our conception of the Greeks and their impact on the modern world.

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Polity

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0745639003

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Seasonal Variations of the Eskimo

A Study in Social Morphology

By: Marcel Mauss

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Seasonal Variations of the Eskimo

A Study in Social Morphology

By: 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 of what an anthropologist should do with ethnographic data and exerted considerable influence on the development of social anthropology. English translation first published in 1979.

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Routledge

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1136541934

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Primitive Classification (Routledge Revivals)

By: Emile Durkheim,Marcel Mauss

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Primitive Classification (Routledge Revivals)

By: Emile Durkheim,Marcel Mauss

In this influential work, first published in English in 1963, Durkheim and Mauss claim that the individual mind is capable of classification and they seek the origin of the ‘classificatory function’ in society. On the basis of an intensive examination of forms and principles of symbolic classification reported from the Australian aborigines, the Zuñi and traditional China, they try to establish a formal correspondence between social and symbolic classification. From this they argue that the mode of classification is determined by the form of society and that the notions of space, time, hierarchy, number, class and other such cognitive categories are products of society. Dr Needham’s introduction assesses the validity of Durkhiem and Mauss’s argument, traces its continued influence in various disciplines, and indicates its analytical value for future researches in social anthropology.

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1135174318

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The Writing of Orpheus

Greek Myth in Cultural Context

By: Marcel Detienne

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The Writing of Orpheus

Greek Myth in Cultural Context

By: Marcel Detienne

Winner of the Translation Prize for non-fiction from the French-American Foundation. Son of a mortal king and an immortal Muse, Orpheus possessed a gift for music unmatched among humans; with his lyre he could turn the course of rivers, drown the fatal song of the Sirens, and charm the denizens of the underworld. The allure of his music speaks through the myths and stories of the Greeks and Romans, who tell of his mysterious compositions, with lyrics that only the initiated could understand after undergoing secret rites. Where readers of subsequent centuries have been content to understand these mysteries as the stuff of obfuscation or mere folderol, Marcel Detienne finds in the writing of Orpheus a key to the thinking of the ancient Greeks. A profound understanding of ancient Greek myth in its cultural contexts allows Detienne to recover a cultural system from fragments and ephemera—to reproduce, with sensitivity to variation and nuance, the full richness of the mythological repertoire flowing from the writing of Orpheus. His investigation moves from the Orphic writings to broader mysteries: how Greek gods became myths, how myths informed later religious thinking, and how myths have come into play in polemics between competing religions. An eloquent answer to some of the most vexing questions about the myth of Orpheus and its far-reaching ramifications through time and culture, Detienne's work ultimately offers a major rethinking of Greek mythology.

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JHU Press

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0801869544

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Primitive Classification

By: Emile Durkheim,Marcel Mauss

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Primitive Classification

By: Emile Durkheim,Marcel Mauss

Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss maintain that society is the source of the very categories of human thought. First published in the Année Sociologique in 1903, this classic essay has been translated by Rodney Needham, who also provides a critical introduction. "[Primitive Classification] will impress the reader with its quiet elegance, its direct, logical form, its clarity of style, its spirit of careful, yet bold, exploration."—Harry Alpert, American Journal of Sociology "Particularly instructive for anyone who wonders what social anthropology is: how, if at all, it differs from sociology and whether it has any unifying theoretical problem."—F. K. Lehman, American Sociological Review

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University of Chicago Press

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0226173348

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9780226173344

The City in the Making

By: Marcel Hénaff

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The City in the Making

By: Marcel Hénaff

An ambitious, interdisciplinary exploration of the emergence of the urban phenomenon and its social, political and cultural dynamic.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1783485280

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Comparing the Incomparable

By: Marcel Detienne

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Comparing the Incomparable

By: Marcel Detienne

A deliberately post-deconstructionist manifesto against the dangers of incommensurability, Marcel Detienne's book argues for and engages in the constructive comparison of societies of a great temporal and spatial diversity.

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Stanford University Press

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0804757496

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The Daily Life of the Greek Gods

By: Giulia Sissa,Marcel Detienne

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The Daily Life of the Greek Gods

By: Giulia Sissa,Marcel Detienne

Discusses the everyday life of the gods of the Iliad, including what their bodies were made of, how they received nourishment, their social life on Olympus and among humans, and their loves, festivities, and disputes.

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Stanford University Press

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0804736146

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Claude Lévi-Strauss and the Making of Structural Anthropology

By: Marcel Hénaff

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Claude Lévi-Strauss and the Making of Structural Anthropology

By: Marcel Hénaff

As anthropology continues to transform itself, this book affords a broad and balanced account of the remarkable accomplishments of one of the great intellectual innovators of the 20th century. It presents an authoritative and accessible analysis of Claude Levi-Strauss's research in anthropological theory and practice as well as his contributions to debates surrounding linguistics, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816627614

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The Manual of Ethnography

By: Marcel Mauss

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The Manual of Ethnography

By: Marcel Mauss

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.

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Berghahn Books

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1845456823

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The Nature of Sociology

By: Marcel Mauss

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The Nature of Sociology

By: Marcel Mauss

Translation of two weeks: Sociologie, originally published in 1901 in La grande encyclopedie; and, Divisions et proportions des divisions de la sociologie, first published in 1927.

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1571816593

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9781571816597

The Oral Style (RLE Folklore)

By: Marcel Jousse

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The Oral Style (RLE Folklore)

By: Marcel Jousse

In this book, first published in 1990, Edgard Sienaert and Richard Whitaker offer the first English translation of Marcel Jousse’s crucially important work, Le style oral. As the translators observe, this study fired the imagination of contemporary intellectuals in Paris soon after its publication and influenced the work of many. In this book, Jousse provides a thorough and detailed theoretical account of the compositional style of oral, as opposed to literate, authors, showing that the antithetical, balancing, formulaic quality of that style is deeply rooted in the psychological and even physiological nature of mankind.

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1317550269

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The Gift

The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies

By: Marcel Mauss

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The Gift

The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies

By: Marcel Mauss

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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1136896910

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Essai Sur Le Don

By: Marcel Mauss

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Essai Sur Le Don

By: Marcel Mauss

When first published, The Gift served as nothing less than an onslaught on contemporary political theory. This edition confirms the continuing relevance of Mauss's highly original perspective.

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Psychology Press

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0415267498

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Festivals and Songs of Ancient China

By: Marcel Granet

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Festivals and Songs of Ancient China

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La religion des Chinois

By: Marcel Granet

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La religion des Chinois

By: Marcel Granet

Rares sont les études d'histoire des religions qui demeurent pertinentes après plusieurs décennies. Tel est le cas de cet ouvrage du grand sinologue Marcel Granet, qui, bien avant la révolution communiste, sut s'élever au niveau des longs cycles pour analyser les différentes strates historiques de la spiritualité chinoise. Dans un esprit à la fois synthétique et précis, l'auteur de La Pensée chinois et de La Civilisation chinoise décrit la religion primitive de la paysannerie, puis les cultes de la Chine féodale, les structures de la religion qu'il appelle " officielle " - celle des lettrés de l'Empire, inspirée des enseignements de Confucius -, enfin le taoïsme et le bouddhisme chinois, qui s'entremêlent en un syncrétisme original. Un " classique " de l'orientalisme, nourri d'érudition et d'esprit humaniste.

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Editions Albin Michel

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222609962X

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9782226099624

My Father's Glory

And, My Mother's Castle : Marcel Pagnol's Memories of Childhood

By: Marcel Pagnol

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My Father's Glory

And, My Mother's Castle : Marcel Pagnol's Memories of Childhood

By: Marcel Pagnol

Two books in one volume of Pagnol's childhood memoirs. The stories evoke the sun-baked Provencal countryside and show the young Marcel spending happy hours following in his father's and uncle's footsteps fishing and trapping during the long summer months.

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0233984593

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9780233984599

Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove

By: Marcel Proust

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Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove

By: Marcel Proust

Follows the narrator's recollections of childhood and experiences into adulthood in the late 19th century and early 20th century aristocratic France, while reflecting on the loss of time and lack of meaning to the world.

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