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MAR< Edited and with an Introduction by V\fBSaFB P lC lC G riH ^ O P n rayer M arcel M auss O n P rayer Translated by Susan Leslie Edited and with an Introduction by W.S.F. Pickering and Concluding Remarks by Howard Morphy Durkheim Press/Berghuhn Books New York • Oxford ; ^ ' , 0 . ÏT' O 0 cmmm First published in 2003 by Berghahn Books www.berghahnbooks.com © 2003 Durkheim Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the written permission of Berghahn Books. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mauss, Marcel, 1872-1950. [La Prière. English] On prayer : text and commentary / Marcel Mauss, p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 1-57181-633-X (alk. paper) 1. Prayer. 2. Religion and sociology. I. Title. BL560.M3813 2003 306.6’9143—dc21 2003051812 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Printed in the United States on acid-free paper ISBN 1-57181-633-X hardback A reproduction of the cover of La Prière printed in 1909 and privately circulated. The original is located in the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Oxford University. Contents Frontispiece v Acknowledgements ix Presentation, Notes and Referencing xi Introduction to an Unfinished Work 1 W.S.F. Pickering Marcel Mauss: On Prayer 17 Translated by Susan Leslie Book I 19 Chapter 1 General Introduction 21 Chapter 2 27 Chapter 3 Initial Definition 49 Book II The Nature of Elementary Oral Rites 59 Chapter 1 The History of the Question and Delineation of the Subject 61 Chapter 2 Do Prayers Exist in Australia? 69 Chapter 3 The Formulae of the Intichiuma 83 Notes 9 7 Edited by Robert Parkin Mauss’s Review of Segond’s book on Prayer 13 7 Translated by Susan Leslie Some Concluding Anthropological Reflections 139 Howard Morphy Index 155 Acknowledgements The British Centre for Durkheimian Studies and the Durkheim Press, which are both located in Oxford, are grateful to M. Pierre Mauss of Montpellier for permission to translate Marcel Mauss’s La Prière. The Centre also wishes to thank David Roth for the financial contribution he made towards the cost of translation. The production of this book has been essentially the co-operative venture of people who have worked on the project started several years ago. Nevertheless the Editor, who called on their services, wishes to thank them by name. Sincere gratitude is extended to Susan Leslie for undertaking the arduous task of translation, and to Nick Allen who has assisted in dealing with technical points raised by translating such a complicated text. His advice and many comments made at nearly every stage of the development of the book have been much appreciated. Howard Morphy, a specialist in Australian ethnography, has kindly written some observations on Mauss’s work on prayer and his use and interpretation of primary sources available in his day A considerable contribution has been made by Robert Parkin who has closely examined the large number of sometimes complicated footnotes that Mauss spread liberally over his text. The Editor also extends warm thanks to Dominique Lussier, Julia Goddard and his wife, Carol, who in various ways have helped in the production of the manuscript. W.S.F.P.

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