Marcel Mauss (French: [mos]; 10 May 1872 – 10 February 1950) was a French sociologist and anthropologist known as the "father of French ethnology". The...

by the French sociologist Marcel Mauss that is the foundation of social theories of reciprocity and gift exchange. Mauss's original piece was entitled...

theory, feminist theory, and post-structuralist thought. Mary Douglas, Marcel Mauss, Pierre Bourdieu, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Judith Butler, and Michel Foucault...

consider Marcel Mauss (1872–1950), nephew of the influential sociologist Émile Durkheim, to be the founder of the French anthropological tradition. Mauss belonged...

Malinowski's study became the subject of debate with the French anthropologist, Marcel Mauss, author of The Gift ("Essai sur le don", 1925). Since then, the Kula...

hard to see why the original claims about the social facts are. For Marcel Mauss (Durkheim's nephew and sometime collaborator) a total social fact (French...

activities. In the words of Radcliffe-Brown, "Ritual fortifies Society". Marcel Mauss made many comparative studies on religion, magic, law and morality of...

guarantee of a return. Malinowski's debate with the French anthropologist Marcel Mauss quickly established the complexity of "gift exchange" and introduced...

who is best known for his work on the Celts and his collaboration with Marcel Mauss and other members of the Année Sociologique. Hubert was born and raised...

anthropologist, major contributor to the Année and nephew of Durkheim himself, Marcel Mauss; future ancient Greek specialist and editor of Année Louis Gernet; and...

students were Jewish, some even being blood relatives. For instance Marcel Mauss, a notable social anthropologist of the prewar era, was his nephew. A...

Tlingit ceremonies. In his 1925 book The Gift, the French ethnologist Marcel Mauss used the term potlatch to refer to a whole set of exchange practices...

to the debate between early anthropologists Bronislaw Malinowski and Marcel Mauss on the meaning of "Kula exchange" in the Trobriand Islands off Papua...

His name is both an acronym and a tribute to the famous anthropologist Marcel Mauss. The movement works to promote a third paradigm, as a complement to,...

military commander Marcel Mauss (1872–1950), French sociologist and ethnologist Werner Mauss (born 1940), German private investigator M.A.U.S.S., acronym for...

Hau is a notion made popular by the French anthropologist Marcel Mauss in his 1925 book The Gift. Surveying the practice of gifting, he came to the conclusion...

Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Erwin Panofsky and Marcel Mauss among others, his research pioneered novel investigative frameworks and...

individuals find meaning in their actions, synthesizing insights of Marcel Mauss, Karl Marx, and others. In parallel with Polanyi's account of markets...

he has become one of the most eminent specialists. His biographies of Marcel Mauss and Émile Durkheim are notably references. In 2013, he won the Prix Léon-Gérin...

Catholic archbishop Marcel Mauss (1872–1950), French ethnologist Marcel Minnaert (1893–1970), Dutch astronomer of Flemish origin Marcel Olteanu (1872–1943)...

comparison. Economic anthropologists such as Marshall Sahlins, Karl Polanyi, Marcel Mauss and Maurice Godelier have demonstrated that in traditional societies...

x. Mauss, Marcel (2007). A General Theory of Magic (Reprint ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-25396-3. Fournier, Marcel (2006). Marcel Mauss: A...

difficult to describe the society's acts. Bataille referred several times to Marcel Mauss who had studied secret societies in Africa, describing them as a "total...

the Polish founder of anthropology Bronislaw Malinowski and the French Marcel Mauss on the nature of reciprocity as an alternative to market exchange. For...

renegade surrealists. He was heavily influenced by Hegel, Freud, Marx, Marcel Mauss, the Marquis de Sade, Alexandre Kojève, and Friedrich Nietzsche, the...

they arise. The 1903 essay Primitive Classification, by Durkheim and Marcel Mauss, invoked "primitive" group mythology to argue that classification systems...

Gillian Tett of the Financial Times compared the book to the works of Marcel Mauss, Karl Polanyi, and Keith Hart. Economist Julio Huato, associate professor...

retrieved October 12, 2013 The primeval concept of Nemesis is traced by Marcel Mauss (Mauss, The Gift: the form and reason for exchange in archaic societies...

often used to authenticate the ritual authority of corporate groups". Marcel Mauss first described inalienable possessions in The Gift, discussing potlatches...

1920 he returned to university, where he attended the lectures of Marcel Mauss and Marcel Cohen. Intrigued by anthropology, he gave up plans for a technical...