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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.
Armand Lind Mauss (June 5, 1928 – August 1, 2020) was an American sociologist specializing in the sociology of religion.He was Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Religious Studies at Washington State University and was the most frequently published author of Sociology works on Mormons during his long career.
A synthesis which made date. First posthumous edition by Marcel Mauss in the series of Henri Berr. Hubert was born and raised in Paris, where he attended Lycée Louis-le-Grand. There he was influenced by the school chaplain, Abbé Quentin, who instilled in him an interest in religion and in particular in religion amongst Assyrians.
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). [6] 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.
Mauss and his collaborator, Henri Hubert, were criticised for this position when their 1904 Outline of a General Theory of Magic was published. "No one questioned the existence of the notion of mana", wrote Mauss's biographer Marcel Fournier, "but Hubert and Mauss were criticized for giving it a universal dimension". [23]
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.
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.
Professor of American Religious history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst: 1995–96 David J. Whittaker: Brigham Young University archivist 1996–97 Linda King Newell: historian; author of Mormon Enigma; editor of Dialogue; JWHA president 1997–98 Armand L. Mauss: WSU professor of sociology and religious studies 1998–99 Jill Mulvay ...