About the Author

Marcel Mauss (1872-1950)

Reviews

“In the wake of considerable recent biographical attention to Marcel Mauss in English-language publications, it is fitting that works by him still available only in French appear in translation. The Manual of Ethnography has been expertly translated by Dominique Lussier, and appropriately edited and introduced by N. J. Allen. This historically important document, … reflects the youthful moment of modern anthropology when the questions and subjects of this discipline came to depend on rigorous collection of material from field research… an important historical document in the context of Mauss's teaching of anthropology and in the originary hopes for ethnography. Highly recommended.”  ·  George Marcus in Choice