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Techniques, Technology and Civilization by Marcel Mauss 9781789208146
RRP: $30.90Booksplease Price: $27.30Marcel 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... -
The Gift - Expanded Edition Marcel Mauss 9780990505006
RRP: $16.77Booksplease Price: $15.93Scan down a list of essential works in any introduction to anthropology course and you are likely to see to see Marcel Mauss's masterpiece, Essay on the Gift. With this new translation, this crucial... -
The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies by Marcel Mauss 9781614271239
Booksplease Price: $15.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614271239Author Marcel MaussFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint < -
The Gift Paradigm - A Short Introduction to the Anti-Utilitarian Movement in the Social Sciences by Alain Caille
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $12.94In his classic essay The Gift, Marcel Mauss argued that gifts can never be truly free; rather, they bring about an expectation of reciprocal exchange. For over one hundred years, his ideas on... -
Giving Life, Giving Death: Psychoanalysis, Anthropology, Philosophy by Lucien Scubla 9781611862089
RRP: $28.32Booksplease Price: $18.99Although women alone have the ability to bring children into the world, modern Western thought tends to discount this female prerogative. In Giving Life, Giving Death, Lucien Scubla argues that... -
Economic Anthropology Chris Hann (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany) 9780745644837
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.89This book is a new introduction to the history and practice of economic anthropology by two leading authors in the field. They show that anthropologists have contributed to understanding the three... -
The Mark of the Sacred by Jean-Pierre Dupuy
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52Jean-Pierre Dupuy, prophet of what he calls "enlightened doomsaying," has long warned that modern society is on a path to self-destruction. In this book, he pleads for a subversion of this crisis... -
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Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life by Margaret Lock 9780822338307 [USED COPY]
RRP: $149.64Booksplease Price: $51.42Over the past several decades, scholars in both the social sciences and humanities have moved beyond the idea that there is a "body proper": a singular, discrete biological organism with an... -
John Zorn: Tradition and Transgression by John Brackett
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52John Zorn is one of the most prolific and active American composers/performers working today. He has been a fixture of New York's "Downtown Scene" since the mid-70s as a tireless proponent of...