Scan down a list of essential works in any introduction to anthropology course and you are likely to see to see Marcel Mausss masterpiece Essay on the Gift. With this new translation this crucial essay is returned to its original context published alongside the profound works that framed its first publication in the 192324 issue of LAnnee Sociologique. With a critical foreword by Maurice Godelier this is certain to become the standard English version of this important anthropological work. Incl