Marcel Mauss

Marcel MaussMarcel Mauss, successor of Emile Durkheim and one time teacher of Claude Levi Strauss, continues to inspire social scientists across various disciplines. Only selected texts of Mauss's work have been translated into English, but of these, some, as for instance his "Essay on the Gift," have proved of key significance for the development of anthropology internationally. Recently and starting in France, the interest in Mauss's work has increased

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Worker and Community focuses on the social and cultural impact of industrialization in Albany

and communities do to create schools that provide rich learning experiences for African American children

Flight Paths tells the story of how a small group of New York biologists raced against nature's clock to bring these two beloved birds back from the brink in record-setting numbers

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Inscriptions on the remains of 128 inscribed clay tablets found at Nippur in south central Iraq turned out to be written in a previously unknown early Neo-Babylonian script dating back to the middle of the eighth century b

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This is a detailed study of the prehistoric landscape in Crete

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This portrait of eunuch society reveals that Qing palace eunuchs operated within two parallel realms

and temporal principles and concepts pertinent to EDX medicine