1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910494606903321

Autore

Mauss Marcel

Titolo

Manual of ethnography / / Marcel Mauss ; translated by Dominique Lussier ; edited and introduced by N. J. Allen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford : , : Durkheim Press/Berghahn Books, , 2009

ISBN

0-85745-553-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Disciplina

305.8

Soggetti

Ethnology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1  Preliminary Remarks; Chapter 2  Methods of Observation; Chapter 3  Social Morphology; Chapter 4  Technology; Chapter 5  Aesthetics; Chapter 6  Economic Phenomena; Chapter 7  Jural Phenomena; Chapter 8  Moral Phenomena; Chapter 9  Religious Phenomena; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) was the leading social anthropologist in Paris between the world wars, and his Manuel d'ethnographie, dating from that period, is the longest of all his texts. Despite having had four editions in France, the Manuel has hitherto been unavailable in English. This contrasts with his essays, longer and shorter, many of which have long enjoyed the status of classics within anthropology. We are therefore pleased to present, in the English language for the first time, this extraordinary work that is based on the more than thirty lectures Mauss delivered each



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910689524503321

Titolo

Half a loaf : the impact of excluding surplus commodities from America's response to global hunger : hearing before the Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring, and the District of Columbia Subcommittee of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session, June 4, 2002

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 117 p.) : ill

Soggetti

Surplus agricultural commodities, American

Food relief, American

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia