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Name: Marcel Mauss
Birth Date: May 10, 1872
Death Date: February 10, 1950
Place of Birth: Épinal, France
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupations: ethnologist

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Biography of Marcel Mauss
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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...


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Mauss, Marcel Summary
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MAUSS, MARCEL (1872–1950), the father of French ethnography, has had a profound influence on human and social sciences and has left behind an incredibly rich intellectual legacy. He is automatically linked with his uncle and teacher,...
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Marcel Mauss (May 10, 1872 – February 10, 1950) was a French sociologist best known for his role in elaborating on and securing the legacy of his uncle Émile Durkheim and the Année Sociologique. His most famous work is The Gift, on reciprocity...


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Anthropological Quarterly
Marcel Mauss: A Biography
07/01/2006: 1,405 words, approx. 5 pages
Marcel Fournier, Translated by Jane Marie Todd, Marcel Mauss: A Biography. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005, 448 pp. The academic neophytes among us may take stock in the fact that the famous Marcel Mauss launched his career by writing book reviews; likewise,...
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Anthropologica
[Marcel Mauss: a centenary tribute]
01/01/2001: 2,088 words, approx. 7 pages
Wendy James and N.J. Allen (eds.), New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, xii + 260 pages. Reviewer: Andrew P. Lyons Wilfrid Laurier University This volume contains a selection of papers from a 1998 conference at Oxford which celebrated the centenary of...
 


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