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  2. The Gift (essay) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Marcel Mauss - Wikipedia

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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 .

  4. Educational capital - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Bibliography of anthropology - Wikipedia

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    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

  6. Economic anthropology - Wikipedia

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    In the 1920s and later, Malinowski's research became the subject of debate with the French anthropologist, Marcel Mauss, author of The Gift (Essai sur le don, 1925). [5] Contrasting Mauss, Malinowski emphasised the exchange of goods between individuals , and their non-altruistic motives for giving: they expected a return of equal or greater value.

  7. File:Learning Theories.pdf - Wikipedia

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    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).

  8. Hau (anthropology) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Social fact - Wikipedia

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    For Marcel Mauss (Durkheim's nephew and sometime collaborator) a total social fact (French fait social total) is "an activity that has implications throughout society, in the economic, legal, political, and religious spheres". [8] Diverse strands of social and psychological life are woven together through what he came to call total social facts.