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Marcel Israël Mauss (French:; 10 May 1872 – 10 February 1950) was a French sociologist and anthropologist known as the "father of French ethnology". [1] The nephew of Émile Durkheim , Mauss, in his academic work, crossed the boundaries between sociology and anthropology .
Mauss is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: François Mauss, the founder and president of the Grand Jury Européen; Karl Mauss (1898–1959), German military commander; Marcel Mauss (1872–1950), French sociologist and ethnologist; Werner Mauss (born 1940), German private investigator
Inalienable Possessions: The Paradox of Keeping-While-Giving is a book by anthropologist Annette Weiner. [5] Weiner was a Professor of Anthropology and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts at New York University, and served as president of the American Anthropological Association.
AKRON, Ohio (WJW) – A local father surprised his daughter with a special wedding dance and now video from that night has gone viral. Jim Mickunas says, his phone has been ringing off the hook ...
The Gift has been very influential in anthropology, [3] where there is a large field of study devoted to reciprocity and exchange. [4] It has also influenced philosophers, artists, and political activists, including Georges Bataille, Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard, and more recently the work of David Graeber and the theologians John Milbank and Jean-Luc Marion.
The Wedding Dance (sometimes known as The Village Dance) is a 1566 oil-on-panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Owned by the museum of the Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit , Michigan , the work was discovered by its director in England in 1930, and brought to Detroit.
Persona gradually became "synonymous with the true nature of the individual" in the Roman world, in the view of Marcel Mauss, but "servus non habet personam ('a slave has no persona'). He has no personality. He does not own his body; he has no ancestors, no name, no cognomen, no goods of his own." [65]
Lévi-Strauss took many ideas from structural linguistics, including those of Ferdinand de Saussure, Roman Jakobson, Émile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss.Saussure argued that linguists needed to move beyond the recording of parole (individual speech acts) and come to an understanding of langue, the grammar of each language.