Site frozen. Go to Anthrograph for the latest [July 4, 2025]

I am pleased to announce that I am debuting a new site for teaching resources at https://anthrograph.rschram.org. Please visit and browse.

The Anthrocyclopaedia will remain for now as an archive but will no longer be updated. I will be manually moving materials from this site to Anthrograph from today, editing and updating as I go. Thanks for your visits over the many years---over 10!---that this site has been active. I look forward to welcoming you to a new teaching site.

Ryan Schram's Anthrocyclopaedia

Anthropology presentations and learning resources

User Tools

Site Tools

You are here: start » marcel_mauss
marcel_mauss

Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

Link to this comparison view

Next revision		Previous revision
marcel_mauss [2014/07/21 18:09] – created Ryan Schram (admin)marcel_mauss [2021/07/08 22:41] (current) – [Further Reading] Ryan Schram (admin)
Line 1: Line 1:
-# Marcel Mauss #+# Marcel Mauss 
  
 Marcel Mauss is an influential figure in the history of anthropology, largely due to his theory of [[reciprocity]]. He also wrote several studies on a variety of topics, including sacrifice, the body, the person, magic, and with his mentor [[Emile Durkheim]], a study of symbolic classification. In all of his work, one sees the imprint of Durkheimian sociology. Mauss was one of the key members of *L'Annee Sociologique*, a group of scholars associated with the journal of the same name founded by Durkheim. For this group, Durkheim's framework meant that literally everything in any society could be studied and understood in objective terms. Moreover they argued that all societies, no matter how different, possessed a common essence. Every society is a total system, and the elements of social life fit together in one of a few different ways. In Mauss's writing one can sense the zeal with which he attempts to tear away the illusions created by looking at the world from the perspective of the individual.  Marcel Mauss is an influential figure in the history of anthropology, largely due to his theory of [[reciprocity]]. He also wrote several studies on a variety of topics, including sacrifice, the body, the person, magic, and with his mentor [[Emile Durkheim]], a study of symbolic classification. In all of his work, one sees the imprint of Durkheimian sociology. Mauss was one of the key members of *L'Annee Sociologique*, a group of scholars associated with the journal of the same name founded by Durkheim. For this group, Durkheim's framework meant that literally everything in any society could be studied and understood in objective terms. Moreover they argued that all societies, no matter how different, possessed a common essence. Every society is a total system, and the elements of social life fit together in one of a few different ways. In Mauss's writing one can sense the zeal with which he attempts to tear away the illusions created by looking at the world from the perspective of the individual. 
  
-## References ##+## Further Reading ##
  
 Fournier, Marcel. 2005. Marcel Mauss: A Biography. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Fournier, Marcel. 2005. Marcel Mauss: A Biography. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
 +
 +-----
 +
 +
 +<WRAP box similar>~~SIMILAR~~</WRAP>
 +
 +
 +
 +
 +
 +
 +
  
marcel_mauss.1405991387.txt.gz · Last modified: 2014/07/21 18:09 by Ryan Schram (admin)