On Prayer

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Berghahn Books

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491_9781571816337

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There is much of interest in this well-presented volume. Mausss careful discussion of differences among types of oral rites - incantations, spells, invocations - remains instructive. · Social AnthropologyAnthropologists, sociologists and theologians will be grateful for the first English translation of this important early text by Marcel Mauss . . . The notes edited by Robert Parkin and some Concluding Anthropological Reflections by Howard Morphy make this a very valuable item for Mauss scholarship. · Reviews in Religion and TheologyMausss foray into the issue of prayer, though inchoate, is as unexpected as it is significant . . . Pickering has produced a highly scholarly and indispensable volume . . . Impeccably translated . . . this will be the standard reference for Mauss on the topic of prayer. · New BlackfriarsMarcel 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 Mausss use of ethnographic material.W.S.F. Pickering, British Centre for Durkheimian Studies, Oxford University; postscript by Howard Morphy, University of Canberra.Published in Association with the Durkheim Press.

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