ARGONAUT BOOKS

"Among the most welcome features of this third English translation of Mauss's classic is Jane Guyer's decision to re-embed the Essai sur le don: forme et raison de l'e´change dans les socie´te´s archaiques in its original setting in the journal L'Anne´e Sociologique as published in 1925. Her translation and discussion of some of the original framing materials (twenty pages of moving tributes to deceased colleagues before the Essai, and another twenty pages of book reviews at the end) demonstrate more effectively than the earlier English editions both the significance of the timing of this publ...Read More