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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 .
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.
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.
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.).
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.
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.
Marcel Mauss, successor of Emile Durkheim and one-time teacherof Claude Levi-Strauss, continues to inspire social scientistsacross various disciplines. Only sel...
The Pioneer Sociologist Marcel Mauss on Gifts and Exchange (Essay on the Gift: Forms and Motives of Exchange in Archaic Societies, 1923) [By investigating the rules and customs surrounding gift-giving, Mauss predicts,] we will attain conclusions that, in a sense, give us an archaeological perspective on the character of human transactions in ...
Jun 20, 2024 · The publication of an abridged English translation of Marcel Fournier's Marcel Mauss: A Biography (2006 [1994]) allows us to reconsider his historical relationship with Durkheim, as well as his legacy for anthropology, history, and the social sciences today.
