On Prayer

by Mauss, Marcel; Leslie, Susan; Pickering, W. S. F.; Morphy, Howard

• ISBN13: 9781571816337
• ISBN10: 157181633X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

Having taken over the leadership of the French school of sociology after the death of his uncle, Emile Durkheim, in 1917, Mauss, celebrated author of The Gift, re-launched the flagship journal, the Année sociologique. Here are two of Mauss's most significant statements on the social sciences. The first, written with Fauconnet, outlines the methodological orientations of the school. The second examines the internal organization of sociology as a division of intellectual labor. The essays are of interest to anthropologists as well as sociologists for Mauss, like Durkheim, did not distinguish in detail the two disciplines.

Table of Contents

Frontispiece	v
Acknowledgements	ix
Presentation, Notes and Referencing	xi
Introduction to an Unfinished Work	1	(16)
W.S.F. Pickering
Marcel Mauss: On Prayer	17	(80)
Translated by Susan Leslie
Book I	19	(40)
Chapter 1 General Introduction	21	(6)
Chapter 2	27	(22)
Chapter 3 Initial Definition	49	(10)
Book II The Nature of Elementary Oral Rites	59	(38)
Chapter 1 The History of the Question and Delineation of the Subject	61	(8)
Chapter 2 Do Prayers Exist in Australia?	69	(14)
Chapter 3 The Formulae of the Intichiuma	83	(14)
Notes	97	(40)
Edited by Robert Parkin
Mauss's Review of Segond's book on Prayer	137	(2)
Translated by Susan Leslie
Some Concluding Anthropological Reflections	139	(16)
Howard Morphy
Index	155