Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Presentation, Notes and Referencing xi
5. Introduction to an Unfinished Work 1
6. Marcel Mauss ON PRAYER
7. BOOK I
8. Chapter 1 General Introduction 21
9. Chapter 2 27
10. Chapter 3 Initial Definition 49
11. BOOK II THE NATURE OF ELEMENTARY ORAL RITES
12. Chapter 1 History of the Question and Delineation of the Subject 61
13. Chapter 2 Do Prayers Exist in Australia? 69
14. Chapter 3 The Formulae of the Intichiuma 83
15. Notes 97
16. Mauss’s Review of Segond’s Book on Prayer 137
17. Some Concluding Anthropological Reflections 139
18. Index 155