Jean-Pierre Dupuy The Mark of the Sacred (Hardback)

Jean-Pierre Dupuy, prophet of what he calls “enlightened doomsaying,” has long warned that modern society is on a path to self-destruction. In denial of our sacred origins and hubristically convinced of the powers of human reason, we cease to know our own limits: our disenchanted world leaves us defenseless against a headlong rush into the […]

An Analysis of Marcel Mauss’s The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Arch

Marcel Mauss’s 1925 essay The Gift is an enduring classic of sociological and anthropological analysis by a thinker who is one of the founding fathers of modern anthropology. What he sought to do in The Gift was to analyse the structures that governed how and when gifts were given, received, and reciprocated in order to […]