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Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) was a French sociologist and anthropologist, the nephew of Émile Durkheim and the "father of French ethnology". He is known for his studies of magic, sacrifice and gift exchange in different cultures, and his influence on structural anthropology.
Learn about Marcel Mauss, a student of Émile Durkheim and a founder of the Ethnology Institute of Paris. He wrote on gift exchange, sacrifice, magic, and the concept of self, and influenced many social scientists.
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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.
- Christian Papilloud
- 2018
- Contributions to Theory
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- Works by Mauss
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Mauss’s theoretical contributions derive mainly from his concrete application and refinement of Durkheim’s precept, “The essential thing is to unite not many facts, but facts at once typical and well-studied,” as well as the precept laid down in the article written with Fauconnet (which was a sort of Durkheimian charter) that the sociologist must c...
Mauss’s influence is particularly difficult to measure because of his deep involvement in collaborative work with Durkheim and others. He was the Durkheimians’ ethnographic adviser, and his part in the studies of magic, social morphology (1906), and primitive classification was of crucial importance in the development of Durkheim’s own sociology of...
(1899) 1964 Hubert, Henri; and Mauss, MarcelSacrifice: Its Nature and Function. Univ. of Chicago Press.→First published as “Essai sur la nature et la fonction du sacrifice” in Volume 2 of Annéesociologique. (1899–1905) 1909 Hubert, Henri;. and Mauss, MarcelMéanges d’histoire des religions.Paris: Alcan.→ A collection of previously published articles...
Davy, Georges 1958 In Memoriam: Émile Durkheim. Année sociologique3d Series [1957–1958] :vii–x. Gugler, Josef 1961 Die neuere franzosische Soziologie:Ansätze zu einer Standortbestimmung der Soziologie. Neuwied (Germany): Luchterhand. Gugler, Josef 1964 Bibliographic de Marcel Mauss. Hbmme 64:105–112. → The most complete bibliography of Mauss’s publ...
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.
A new translation and edition of Mauss' 1923-24 essay on the gift, with contextual materials and reviews. Mauss argues that gift exchange is a universal and essential feature of human societies, and challenges the opposition between gift and market economies.
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 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.
