Marcel Mauss: A Biography

by Marcel Fournier

Book Overview

This book is the first intellectual biography of Marcel Mauss (1872-1950), the father of modern ethnology and a leading early figure in the French school of sociology. Mauss left a rich intellectual legacy in the social sciences, influencing the work of Claude L vi-Strauss and others. His masterpiece, the 1925 essay The Gift, on reciprocity and gift economies among archaic societies, remains required reading in anthropology, and his work...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691168075
• ISBN13: 9780691168074
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"