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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 .
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.
Mauss describes a system of total services that Pacific and North American tribes participate in where economic transaction is only one component, noting that other actions take place such as "acts of politeness: banquets, rituals, military services, women, children, dances, festivals, fairs"(5) [13] Mauss developed a theory of the three ...
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 ...
Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss, A General Theory of Magic, 1902 (republished by Mauss in 1950) Émile Durkheim, Primitive Classification, 1903 [11] Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, 1905 (English translation: 1930) Arnold van Gennep, The Rites of Passage, 1909; Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, How Natives Think, 1910
The French writer Georges Bataille, in La part Maudite, uses Mauss's argument in order to construct a theory of economy: the structure of gift is the presupposition for all possible economy. Bataille is particularly interested in the potlatch as described by Mauss, and claims that its agonistic character obliges the receiver to confirm their ...
English: PDF version of the Learning Theories Wikibook. This file was created with MediaWiki to LaTeX . The LaTeX source code is attached to the PDF file (see imprint).
Embodiment theory speaks to the ways that experiences are enlivened, materialized, and situated in the world through the body.Embodiment is a relatively amorphous and dynamic conceptual framework in anthropological research that emphasizes possibility and process as opposed to definitive typologies. [1]