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Item Details
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ON PRAYER
TEXT AND COMMENTARY |
| By: |
Marcel Mauss, W. S. F. Pickering (Editor), Howard Morphy (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£23.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
157181633X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781571816337 |
| Publisher: |
BERGHAHN BOOKS, INCORPORATED |
| Pub. date: |
24 September, 2003 |
| Pages: |
176 |
| Description: |
First English translation of Mauss's study of prayer as a social act. |
| Synopsis: |
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 anthropologists, sociologists and theologians. Here, the first English translation to be published, is preceded by a general introduction by W.S.F.Pickering and finally a specific commentary on Mauss's use of ethnographic material. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Berghahn Books, Incorporated |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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