Marcel Mauss The Gift
THE GIFT
ESSAI
SUR LE DON in SOCIOLOGIE ET ANTHROPOLOGIE
Published by
PRESSES UNIVERSITAIRES DE FRANCE
Paris, 1950
THE GIFT
Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies
by
MARCEL MAUSS
Translated by
IAN GUNNISON
With an Introduction by
.
E.
EVANS-PRITCHARD
Professor of Social Anthropology
and Fellow of All Souls
COHEN
&
College,
Oxford
WEST LTD
68-74 Carter Lane, London, E.C.4
1966
Copyright
PRINTED
IN
GREAT BRITAIN BY
LOWE AND BRYDONE
(PRINTERS) LTD,
LONDON
INTRODUCTION
By
E. E.
Evans-Pritchard
Fellow of All Souls College and Professor of Social Anthropology,
University of Oxford
MAUSS
MARCEL
nephew and most
Durkheim's distinguished pupil, was a man of
(i
872-1 950), Emile
unusual ability and learning, and also of integrity and strong convictions. After Durkheim's death he was the leading
French sociology. His reputation was closely bound up with the fortunes of the Annee Sociologique which he helped his uncle to found and make famous; some of the most stimulating and original contributions to its earher numbers were figure in
written by
him in collaboration with Durkheim and Hubert and
Beuchat:
Essai sur la nature
De
et
la
fauction
quelques formes primitives de classification
des representations collectives
de la magie
(1904),
societes eskimos
The war
:
and
:
du
sacrifice
(1899),
contribution a
f etude
(1903), Esquisse d'une theorie generale
Essai sur
les
variations saisonnieres des
essai de morphologic sociale (1906).
of 19 14-18, during which Mauss was on opera-
wiped out the team of brilliant younger scholars whom Durkheim had taught, inspired, and gathered around him^ his son Andre Durkheim, Robert Hertz, Antoine
Bianconi, Georges Gelly, Maxime David, Jean Reynier. The
Master did not survive them (d. 191 7). Had it not been for
*X these disasters Mauss might have given us in ampler measure
CK the fruits of his erudition, untiring industry, and mastery of
^2 method. But he not only
ESSAI
SUR LE DON in SOCIOLOGIE ET ANTHROPOLOGIE
Published by
PRESSES UNIVERSITAIRES DE FRANCE
Paris, 1950
THE GIFT
Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies
by
MARCEL MAUSS
Translated by
IAN GUNNISON
With an Introduction by
.
E.
EVANS-PRITCHARD
Professor of Social Anthropology
and Fellow of All Souls
COHEN
&
College,
Oxford
WEST LTD
68-74 Carter Lane, London, E.C.4
1966
Copyright
PRINTED
IN
GREAT BRITAIN BY
LOWE AND BRYDONE
(PRINTERS) LTD,
LONDON
INTRODUCTION
By
E. E.
Evans-Pritchard
Fellow of All Souls College and Professor of Social Anthropology,
University of Oxford
MAUSS
MARCEL
nephew and most
Durkheim's distinguished pupil, was a man of
(i
872-1 950), Emile
unusual ability and learning, and also of integrity and strong convictions. After Durkheim's death he was the leading
French sociology. His reputation was closely bound up with the fortunes of the Annee Sociologique which he helped his uncle to found and make famous; some of the most stimulating and original contributions to its earher numbers were figure in
written by
him in collaboration with Durkheim and Hubert and
Beuchat:
Essai sur la nature
De
et
la
fauction
quelques formes primitives de classification
des representations collectives
de la magie
(1904),
societes eskimos
The war
:
and
:
du
sacrifice
(1899),
contribution a
f etude
(1903), Esquisse d'une theorie generale
Essai sur
les
variations saisonnieres des
essai de morphologic sociale (1906).
of 19 14-18, during which Mauss was on opera-
wiped out the team of brilliant younger scholars whom Durkheim had taught, inspired, and gathered around him^ his son Andre Durkheim, Robert Hertz, Antoine
Bianconi, Georges Gelly, Maxime David, Jean Reynier. The
Master did not survive them (d. 191 7). Had it not been for
*X these disasters Mauss might have given us in ampler measure
CK the fruits of his erudition, untiring industry, and mastery of
^2 method. But he not only