"In the wake of considerable recent biographical attention to
Marcel Mauss in English-language publications, it is fitting that
works by him still available only in French appear in translation.
The Manual of Ethnography has been expertly translated by Dominique
Lussier, and appropriately edited and introduced by N. J. Allen.
This historically important document, ... reflects the youthful
moment of modern anthropology when the questions and subjects of
this discipline came to depend on rigorous collection of material
from field research... an important historical document in the
context of Mauss's teaching of anthropology and in the originary
hopes for ethnography. Highly recommended." . George Marcus in
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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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