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Marcel Mauss
French sociologist and anthropologist (1872–1950)
Marcel Israël Mauss (French:[mos]; 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. Today, he is perhaps better recognised for his influence on the latter discipline, particularly with respect to his analyses of topics such as magic, sacrifice and gift exchange in different cultures around the world. Mauss had a significant influence upon Claude Lévi-Strauss, the founder of structural anthropology.[2] His most famous work is The Gift (1925).
Background
Family and education
Mauss was born in Épinal, Vosges, to a Jewish family, his father a merchant and his mother an embroidery shop owner. Unlike his younger brother, Mauss did not join the family business and instead he joined the socialist and cooperative movement in the Vosges. Following the death of his grandfather, the Mauss
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Marcel Mauss: A Biography
Single Reviews Passing Lines: Sexuality and Immigration. Brad Epps, Keja Valens, and Bill Johnson Gonzalez, eds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. 485 pp. TIANTIAN ZHENG State University of New York, Cortland This collection addresses how gender, race, sexuality, and citizenship are inextricably intertwined as immigrants negotiate, perform, and contest normative sexuality, gender, and race in the process of “passing lines.” Chapters invariably focus on immigration to the United States, Canada, and Mexico, from Latin America and the Caribbean. Marcelo Suarez-Orozco’s chapter offers an overarching account of the historical trend and characteristics of global migratory movements as well as migration to the United States. Suarez-Orozco traces the political, economic, social, and cultural realities that have triggered the deterritorialized migration both within and across national boundaries. He contends that gender and sexuality play a pivotal role in the global human flows, and he argues that the flow is constantly monitored, regulated, and con
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Biography and publications
Marcel Mauss was born on May 10 1872 into a Jewish family from Épinal. He was the nephew of Émile Durkheim, who greatly influenced him. In 1890, rather than attending the École normale supérieure, he chose to follow his uncle's lectures at the University of Bordeaux. There, he became close to socialist movements and joined the French Workers' Party in 1894. After passing the agrégation in philosophy (1895), he continued his studies at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) and began work on religious phenomena. A trip to the Netherlands and especially England to prepare a thesis on the origins of prayer (1898) brought him into contact with Max Müller and James Frazer, whom Mauss associated with the " English school of religious anthropology ".
As soon as Durkheim founded L'Année sociologique in 1896, Mauss took an active part in the journal, publishing reviews - up to several dozen a year. His first works were regularly written by four hands, with Durkheim and Henri Hubert, among others. He was also an active Dreyfusa
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