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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 .
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 · A chapter from a handbook of relational sociology that explores Marcel Mauss' essay The Gift, which synthesizes ethnographic research on the practices related to the gift in various cultures. The chapter shows how Mauss' relational scheme of give, receive and return presents challenges the individualistic and economic paradigm of modern society.
May 17, 2018 · Learn about Marcel Mauss (1872-1950), the father of French ethnography and a disciple of Émile Durkheim. Explore his contributions to the theory of sacrifice, magic, religion, and social psychology, as well as his political and academic activities.
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 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.
Jan 1, 2022 · A classic anthropological essay on the form and sense of exchange in archaic societies, published alongside the works that framed its first publication in 1923-24. The book includes a foreword by Bill Maurer, an introduction by Jane Guyer, and reviews by Mauss of influential contemporaries.
