The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies

H. Levy-bruhl, 'in Memoriam: Marcel Mauss' in l'année Sociologique, Troisierne Série, 1948 - 49. C. Levi-strauss, 'la Sociologie francaise' in La sociologie da XX siécle, 1947, Vol. 2 (twentieth Century Sociology, 1946, ch. Xvii); 'introduction a l'oeuvre de Marcel Mauss', in Sociologie cl Anthropologie, a collection of some of Mauss's essays published in 1950.

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Marcel Mauss (1872-1950), Emile Durkheim's nephew and most distinguished pupil, was a man of unusual ability and learning, and also of integrity and strong convictions. After Durkheim's death he was the leading figure in French sociology. His reputation was closely bound up with the fortunes of the Annee Sociologique which he helped his uncle to found and make famous; some of the most stimulating and original contributions to its earher numbers were written by him in collaboration with Durkheim and Hubert and Beuchat: Essai sur la nature etla fauction du sacrifice(1899), De quelques formes primitives de classification: contribution a fetude des representations collectives(1903), Esquisse dune theorie generale de la magie (1904), and Essai sur les variations saisonnieres des societes eskimos: essai de morphologic sociale (1906).

The war of 1914-18, during which Mauss was on operational service, almost wiped out the team of brilliant younger scholars whom Durkheim had taught, inspired, and gathered around him his son Andre Durkheim, Robert Hertz, Antoine Bianconi, Georges Gelly, Maxime David, Jean Reynier. The Master did not survive them (d. 1917). Had it not been for these disasters Mauss might have given us in ampler measure Ck the fruits of his erudition, untiring industry, and mastery of 2 method. But he not only wrote about social solidarity and collective sentiments. He expressed them in his own life. For. him the group of Durkheim and his pupils and colleagues had a kind of collective mind, the material representation of which was its product the Annee.

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