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On Prayer : Text and Commentary / ed. by W. S. F. Pickering.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publications of the Durkheim PressPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781571816337
  • 9781782384755
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  • 306.6/9143 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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