Seasonal Variations of the Eskimo is one of the first books in anthropology to adopt a sociological approach to the analysis of a single society. Mauss links elements of anthropology and human geography, arguing that geographical factors should be considered in relation to a social context in all its complexity.
The work is an illuminating source on the Eskimo and a proto-type of what an anthropologist should do with ethnographic data and exerted considerable influence on the development of social anthropology.
English translation first published in 1979.

Marcel Mauss

1. General Morphology 2. Seasonal Morphology 3. The Causes of Eskimo Seasonal Variations 4. The Effects of Eskimo Seasonal Variation 5. Conclusion