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Marcel Mauss ( French: [mos]; 10 May 1872 – 10 February 1950) was a French sociologist and anthropologist known as the "father of French ethnology". [1] The nephew of Émile Durkheim, Mauss, in his academic work, crossed the boundaries between sociology and anthropology.
Jan 1, 2022 · With this new translation, Mauss classic essay is returned to its original context, published alongside the works that framed its first publication in the 1923-24 issue of LAnnee Sociologique.
Marcel Mauss (born May 10, 1872, Épinal, Fr.—died Feb. 10, 1950, Paris) was a French sociologist and anthropologist whose contributions include a highly original comparative study of the relation between forms of exchange and social structure.
The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies ( French: Essai sur le don: forme et raison de l'échange dans les sociétés archaïques) is a 1925 essay by the French sociologist Marcel Mauss that is the foundation of social theories of reciprocity and gift exchange .
Marcel Mauss (10 May 1872 – 10 February 1950) was a French sociologist whose academic work traversed the boundaries between sociology and anthropology. His best known work is Essai sur le don [The Gift].
Oct 18, 2021 · "Since its first publication in English in 1954, Marcel Mauss's Essai sur le Don has been acclaimed as a classic among anthropology texts. A brilliant example of the comparative method, it presents the first systematic study of the custom -- widespread in primitive societies from ancient Rome to present-day Melanesia -- of exchanging gifts."
Jan 11, 2018 · Marcel Mauss (1872–1950) is the nephew of Emile Durkheim (1858–1917), the founding father of French academic sociology. Marcel Mauss introduces himself as the faithful collaborator of Emile Durkheim, and the first supporter of his scientific project (see Besnard and Fournier in Durkheim 1998, 5ff.).
With this phrase, Marcel Mauss captures the entire meaning and program of anthropology. The phrase has sustained, for more than half a century, his extraordinary and prophetic oeuvre, which becomes increasingly timely as its deepest intention materializes in new discoveries, in the evolution of the science he contributed to establish.
Marcel Mauss. Selected, Annotated, and Translated by Jane I. Guyer. Scan down a list of essential works in any introduction to anthropology course and you are likely to see Marcel Mauss’ masterpiece, The Gift.
Marcel Mauss was fourteen years younger than Emile Durkheim. Born in 1872 in Epinal, the family town of the Durkheims, he was the son of Rosine Durkheim, Emile Durkheim’s elder sister, and Gerson Mauss.
