Excerpt from The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic SocietiesH. Levy-bruhl, 'in Memoriam: Marcel Mauss' in l'année Sociologique, Troisierne Série, 1948 - 49. C. Levi-strauss, 'la Sociologie francaise' in La sociologie da XX siécle, 1947, Vol. 2 (twentieth Century Sociology, 1946, ch. Xvii), 'introduction a l'oeuvre de Marcel Mauss', in Sociologie cl Anthropologie, a collection of some of Mauss's essays published in 1950.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.