"Essai sur le don" (English spelling)

Japanese: 《Essai sur le don》(英語表記)Essaisurledon
"Essai sur le don" (English spelling)

...His early studies on sacrifice, classification, magic, social forms, prayer, etc., and his later studies on exchange and bodily techniques, etc., were pioneering themes that continue to provide topics of discussion in the modern social sciences. In particular, "Essai sur le don" (1925, included in "Sociology and Anthropology" (1968)) put forward the idea of ​​"total social facts" that cannot be reduced to the fields of religion, law, morality, and economics through the analysis of exchange systems such as the potlatch and the kula, and had a great influence on the structural anthropology of Lévi-Strauss.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Essai sur le don" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…初期の供犠,分類,呪術,社会形態,祈り等に関する研究,後期の交換・身体技法等の研究はいずれも現代の社会諸科学になお論点を与えつづける先駆的なテーマの発掘である。とりわけ《贈与論Essai sur le don》(1925。《社会学と人類学》(1968)所収)はポトラッチ,クラなどの交換体系の分析を通じて,宗教,法,道徳,経済の諸領域に還元できない〈全体的社会事実faits sociaux totaux〉の構想を打ち出したもので,レビ・ストロースの構造人類学に大きな影響を与えた。…

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