Introduction to the Work of Marcel Mauss

First published in 1987. Claude Levi-Strauss is one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century, a leading exponent of structuralism and a great social anthropologist. His Introduction to the Work of Marcel Mauss , originally written to preface the earliest major collection of Mauss''s writings, Sociologie et Anthropologie (1950), was hailed as a seminal text by leading structuralists such...