A book of up to 80,000 words for students, some specialist academic colleagues, and the public in Polity Press’s Key contemporary thinkers series. A full draft to be submitted in 2025 for publication in 2026.
The elements so mixed in him that Nature might stand up and say to all the world, “there was a man” (Shakespeare).
Table of contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Orientalism, Durkheim’s school of French sociology and after the war
Chapter 2. Religion and ritual in society: sacred and symbolic anthropology
Chapter 3. Primitive classification; a case study; Kant’s vision for this century
Chapter 4. The essay on The Gift
Chapter 5. Interdisciplinary humanism: sociology, psychology and body techniques
Chapter 6. Ethnography and history of the person: from social status to the self
Chapter 7. Anthropology as a descriptive science of total human beings
Chapter 8. Cooperative socialism in theory and practice: money and the social market
Chapter 9. Building a human economy in a world crisis
Chapter 10. A new humanism for world society
References
Very much looking forward to this project’s fruition. I’m pretty interested in Mauss’ legacy as far as ontology and epistemology go, not necessarily as confined to social anthropology per say, maybe somewhat, but more in his influence on those philosophical ethnologists who were and are interested in critiquing culture as a plastic idiom of banal difference and a scaffolding for the rejection of radical alterity. Folks like Klossowski and Clastres, Baudrillard and Virilio.