Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
A Note on the Illustrations

Introduction: Technological Commitments: Marcel Mauss and the Study of Techniques in the French Social Sciences
Nathan Schlanger

Texts Chapter 1. Technology (1901)
Emile Durkheim

Chapter 2. Technology. Introduction (1903)
Henri Hubert

Chapter 3. Note on the Concept of Civilisation (1913)
Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss

Chapter 4. The Nation (1920/1953, extracts)
Chapter 5. The Divisions of Sociology (1927, extracts)
Chapter 6. Debate on the Origins of Human Technology (1929)
Chapter 7. Civilisations, Their Elements and Forms (1929/1930)
Chapter 8. Fragment of a Plan of General Descriptive Sociology (on Tradition) (1934, extract)
Chapter 9. Techniques of the Body (1935)
Chapter 10. Technology (1935/1947)
Chapter 11. Conceptions Which Have Preceded the Notion of Matter (1939)
Chapter 12. Techniques and Technology (1941/1948)

Biographical Notes
General Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Nathan Schlanger coordinates the AREA project (Archives of European Archaeology) at the INHA, Paris. He has published on prehistoric archaeology, on the technological contributions of Mauss and Leroi-Gourhan, and on the history of archaeology in colonial (African) contexts.

Reviews

“The appearance of these two essays… in English for the first time attests to the continuing interest in Marcel Mauss and the fact that re-readings of his work still provide not only fertile ground for new interpretations of the Durkheimian school in general, but also a source of inspiration for scholars approaching Mauss as a remarkably contemporary voice still speaking in many ways to current issues in sociology and anthropology.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute