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Marcel Mauss (French:; 10 May 1872 – 10 February 1950) was a French sociologist and anthropologist known as the "father of French ethnology". The nephew of Émile Durkheim , Mauss, in his academic work, crossed the boundaries between sociology and anthropology .
May 9, 2024 · 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.
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.).
May 17, 2018 · Marcel Mauss. The French sociologist and anthropologist Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) is best known as an ethnologist and historian of religion. Marcel Mauss was born in Épinal on May 10, 1872, to a pious Jewish family against whose traditions he rebelled as a young man.
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.
Jan 1, 2022 · Scan down a list of essential works in any introduction to anthropology course and you are likely to see Marcel Mauss masterpiece, The Gift. 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.
Jan 21, 2023 · This article revisits Marcel Mauss’s theory of magic in the context of contemporary capitalism. Mauss saw magic as the art of transforming, socially accomplished via processes of differentiation that endow specialised agents, and their symbolic acts, with an ambiguous and unstable potentiality to do the extraordinary.
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.
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."
