Introduction 1
Part I Durkheim's Nephew 7
Chapter 1 Epinal, Bordeaux, Paris 9
Chapter 2 Student at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes 37
Chapter 3 Rites of Institution: Early Publications and Travel Abroad 56
Part II The Totem and Taboo Clan 81
Chapter 4 In the Cenacle 85
Chapter 5 Citizen Mauss 96
Chapter 6 Rue Saint-Jacques 113
Chapter 7 Journalist at Humanite 123
Chapter 8 Collective Madness 133
Chapter 9 A Heated Battle at the College de France: The Loisy Affair 149
Chapter 10 Not a Very Funny War 168
Part III The Heir 185
Chapter 11 (The Socialist) Life Goes On 189
Chapter 12 A Burdensome Inheritance 215
Chapter 13 The Institut d'Ethnologie 233
Chapter 14 Sociology, a Lost Cause? 246
Part IV Recognition 259
Chapter 15 A Place at the College de France 263
Chapter 16 Where Professors Devour One Another 276
Chapter 17 Enough to Make You Despair of Politics 303
Chapter 18 The Time of Myths 315
Epilogue: The War and Postwar Years 333
Notes 351
Index 427