Seasonal Variations of the Eskimo
- Authors
- Mauss, Marcel & Fox, James J.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780415330350
- Date
- 2004-04-28T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 2.50 MB
- Lang
- en
Seasonal Variations of the Eskimo is one of the first books in anthropology to adopt a sociological approach to the analysis of a single society. Mauss links elements of anthropology and human geography, arguing that geographical factors should be considered in relation to a social context in all its complexity.
The work is an illuminating source on the Eskimo and a proto-type of what an anthropologist should do with ethnographic data and exerted considerable influence on the development of social anthropology.
English translation first published in 1979.