Durkheim and Mauss also worked together to publish articles in L’Année Sociologique. This book was a response to Immanuel Kant’s categories of understanding. Durkheim and Mauss worked together to publish the book Primitive Classifications. The two worked together on many projects. Émile Durkheim was Marcel Mauss’s uncle as well as a professional influence.
Mauss used Best’s letters and primary data to write his work about Māori gift giving. Elsdon Best Įlsdon Best was an enthographer who studied the Māori people of New Zealand.
These commitments created by gifts made social relationships and bonds stronger. According to Ranapiri, gifts created commitment without force. Through these letters, Ranapiri explained how gifts were used to connect people in Māori society. Ranapiri was a Māori scholar who exchanged letters with ethnographer Elsdon Best. Mauss’s theories about the role of gifts in Māori culture relied heavily on the information provided by Tamati Ranapiri. He also was the chair of the sociology department at the Université de Paris from 1931-1939. Mauss helped form the Institut d'ethnologie (Ethnology Institute) at the University of Paris in 1925 with Paul Rivet and Lucien Lévy-Bruhl. He taught about many different religions.ĭuring World War I, Mauss served in the French army as an interpreter. Mauss eventually became a professor at École Pratique des Hautes Études. In Paris, Mauss studied Sanskrit, Hebrew, history of religion, and other topics. Later he moved to Paris, France where he studied at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (an important French research school). In the early 1890s, Mauss went to the University of Bordeaux where he studied many subjects including religion and philosophy. He was raised in a non-observant Jewish family. His parents were Gerson Mauss and Rosine (Durkheim) Mauss. Marcel Mauss was born in Épinal, France in 1872. Mauss is also known for influencing structural anthropologists such as Claude Lévi-Strauss. The Gift is about the ways gifts and exchanges build relationships.
Mauss is known for his work on gifts and exchange, magic, sacrifice, the body, and comparing cultures.
He was also influenced by his nephew, another famous anthropologist, Émile Durkheim. With a strong background in sociology, he began using ethnography to look at how different cultures build relationships. Marcel Mauss (February 10, 1950) was a French anthropologist and sociologist. École Pratique des Hautes Études, Université de Paris, Université de ParisĬlaude Lévi-Strauss, Pierre Bourdieu, Louis Dumont, Gayle Rubin, David Graeber, George Bataille, and others Université de Bordeaux, École Pratique des Hautes Études
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