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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.
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 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 ...
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
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.
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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 ...
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.