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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 .
Marcel Mauss (1872–1950), French sociologist; Carl R May (born 1961), British medical sociologist; Claire Maxwell (born 1975), German-Australian sociologist; Renate Mayntz, German sociologist; Doug McAdam, American sociologist; Fayette Avery McKenzie (1872–1957), American sociologist; Robert McKenzie (1917–1981), Canadian Politics ...
Mauss saw human actions (and patterns of action) as “psycho-physio-social assemblages” [12] recognizing the intersection of material, cognitive, and cultural influence in human behavior. In a later essay, Mauss established la notion de la personne (the notion of the person/self)—the notion that all humans have self-awareness and a sense ...
HAU took inspiration for its name from Marcel Mauss' usage of the Māori concept of hau in his book The Gift. Mauss' anthropological concept of hau invites people to explore how encounters with alterity occasion the opportunity to build theory from indigenous knowledge practices. The journal addresses topics such as indigenous ontologies and ...
In the context of the movement of French ethnologists at the beginning of the 20th century, led by Paul Rivet (1876-1958) and Marcel Mauss (1872-1950), with whom Besancenot briefly studied in 1937/38, he used photography not only as an instrument to record the location and the subjects, but also as an artistic expression in its own right ...
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.
David Graeber attempts to synthesize the insights of Karl Marx and Marcel Mauss. He sees value as a model for human meaning-making.Starting with Marxist definitions of consumption and production, he introduces Mauss's idea of "objects that are not consumed" and posits that the majority of human behavior consists of activities that would not be properly categorized as either consumption or ...
Hau is a notion made popular by the French anthropologist Marcel Mauss in his 1925 book The Gift. [1] Surveying the practice of gifting, he came to the conclusion that it involved belief in a force binding the receiver and giver. The term 'Hau', used by Māori, became a paradigmatic example for such a view. [2] Writing at the turn of the ...