Abstract
Mauss series’ 9 volumes published by PUF between 2012 and 2021 seek to break with the Great Divide between structural anthropology and durkheimian sociology that marked the previous French editions and to promote the conditions for knowledge accumulation in humanities and social sciences. Beyond The gift, the analysis of maussian works’ triple context - that of their conception, that of their different editions, that of their successive receptions - shows both their theoretical consistency and redirections due to intellectual and political history. The series highlights how Mauss used the back and forth movement between Here and There that characterizes today the ethnographic approach. After specialists of religion and symbolic, new scientific appropriations come from specialists of techniques, language, body, psyché and environnement. This should inspire us to reload Mauss’works in order to acquire cognitive and moral resources while reopening the future thanks to an appeased dialog between social sciences and natural sciences.
Keywords:
L’Année sociologique; epistemology; interdisciplinarity; knowledge accumulation