Techniques, technology, and civilisation
By: Marcel Mauss ; edited and introduced by Nathan Schlanger.
Contributors: Schlanger, Nathan.
Publisher: Durkheim Press/Berghahn Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9781571816627
Subjects: Social sciences -- France; Technology and civilization
Description: "Marcel Mauss's writings on techniques and technology are at the forefront of an important anthropological and sociological research tradition, and they also highlight the theoretical and ideological challenges surrounding this field of study. A selection of Mauss's texts - including his major statements on methodology, body techniques, practical reason, nation and civilisation, progress - are have translated and presented together for the first time, with a discussion of their context, impact and implications. This book will interest scholars and students dealing with the French sociological tradition, and also more generally those concerned with technology and material culture studies in archaeological, anthropological or contemporary settings."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Technology / by Emile Durkheim; title: Technology : introduction / by Henri Hubert; title: Note on the concept of civilisation / by Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss; title: The nation : extracts; title: The divisions of sociology : extracts; title: Debate on the origins of human technology; title: Civilisations, their elements and forms; title: Fragment of a plan on general descriptive sociology (on tradition); title: Techniques of the body; title: Technology : the chapter; title: Conceptions which have preceded the notion of matter; title: Techniques and technology.