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Media type:
E-Book
Title:
On Prayer
:
Text and Commentary
Contains:
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgements
Presentation, Notes and Referencing
Introduction to an Unfinished Work
Marcel Mauss ON PRAYER
BOOK I
Chapter 1 General Introduction
Chapter 2
Chapter 3 Initial Definition
BOOK II THE NATURE OF ELEMENTARY ORAL RITES
Chapter 1 History of the Question and Delineation of the Subject
Chapter 2 Do Prayers Exist in Australia?
Chapter 3 The Formulae of the Intichiuma
Notes
Mauss's Review of Segond's Book on Prayer
Some Concluding Anthropological Reflections
Index
Description:
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