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Journal of Classical Sociology | 2014

Mauss, India, and perspectives from world history

Nick Allen

Mauss’s wide-ranging education included not only philosophy and sociology with Durkheim in Bordeaux, but also philology and Indology with Sylvain Lévi (his ‘second uncle’) in Paris. What was the effect on his life and work of this early but intense exposure to an ancient civilization? A few publications, notably the essay on sacrifice, are predominantly India-focused, but more typically Mauss used his regional expertise within the world-wide framework of Durkheimian sociologie. Several of his more ambitious works, including The Gift, take a world-historical approach, in which India helps to bridge the gap between tribal societies and the modern world; but the region is present in much of his other writing. Mauss’s deep immersion in early India enriched his oeuvre much as intensive fieldwork enriches that of a more typical twentieth-century anthropologist.


Gaia-ecological Perspectives for Science and Society | 2014

Le bouclier d’Achille et la tradition indo-européenne

Nick Allen

Dans quelle mesure les scenes representees sur le bouclier d’Achille forment-elles une structure coherente qui reflete les modeles de pensee archaiques en indoeuropeen ? Dumezil pensait que cette ideologie comportait trois compartiments principaux («fonctions » ) : F1, relative a la sagesse et au sacre ; F2, a la force physique et a la guerre ; F3, a la fecondite et la richesse ; mais de nombreux contextes demandent que nous reconnaissions egalement en bas de la hierarchie F4 -et au sommet F4 +, representant respectivement l’alterite valorisee soit negativement soit positivement. Le bouclier d’Achille est organise comme suit : autour d’une bosse centrale, des bandes concentriques, et une bordure. Yoshida relia en 1964 les bandes aux fonctions classiques (en gros, ville en paix F1, ville en guerre F2, agriculture F3). Le firmament au centre et l’ocean au bord refletent sans doute respectivement F4 + et F4 -. Les scenes agricoles montrent le labour, la recolte de cereales, la recolte de raisin, l’elevage du gros betail et des moutons, les deux formes de l’elevage refletant une distinction entre les animaux domestiques indoeuropeens grands et petits. Cette distinction est situee par Watkins au sein d’une taxinomie indo-europeenne de la richesse qui comprend egalement «cereales et vigne » , et les metaux. Ainsi, la partie F3 du bouclier correspond en grande partie a la taxinomie de Watkins (les metaux etant utilises dans la fabrication du bouclier). Mais elle peut aussi etre analysee fonctionnellement : labour F4 + ; recolte de cereales avec sacrifice F1 ; vendange F2 ; scenes de betail symetriques F3 ; metaux (inanime) F4 -. Si c’est bien le cas, l’ideologie pentadique se reflete a la fois dans le bouclier dans son ensemble et a l’interieur de chacun de ses elements constitutifs.


Ethnos | 2003

From mountains to mythologies

Nick Allen

H ow did I become an anthropologist? The remoter beginnings must lie in family history. Several of my forebears served in India, most but not all of them in the army. My father was a Celtic numismatist, who started his career in the British Museum and, after many years as a civil servant, ended up administering the British Academy, first as Secretary (succeeding Mortimer Wheeler) and then as Treasurer (Turner 1976). He surely transmitted to me a love of research, albeit more by example than by words.


Revue Francaise De Sociologie | 2000

Marcel Mauss : a centenary tribute

Nick Allen; Wendy James


Archive | 2009

Early human kinship : from sex to social reproduction

Nick Allen; Hilary Callan; R. I. M. Dunbar; Wendy James


Archive | 2007

Manual of ethnography

Marcel Mauss; Dominique Lussier; Nick Allen


Routledge | 1998

On Durkheim's Elementary forms of religious life

Nick Allen; W. S. F. Pickering; William Watts Miller


Archive | 2009

Tetradic Theory and the Origin of Human Kinship Systems

Nick Allen


Archive | 2000

Categories and classifications : Maussian reflections on the social

Nick Allen


Archive | 1989

Assimilation of alternate generations

Nick Allen

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Andrew P. Lyons

Wilfrid Laurier University

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Derek Gregory

University of British Columbia

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Marcel Mauss

Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

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Neil Gross

University of British Columbia

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Donald A. Nielsen

State University of New York at Oneonta

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