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• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 40 KB
• Volume: 45
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-5061
• DOI: 10.1002/jhbs.20406

✦ Synopsis

This book by University of Montreal sociologist Marcel Fournier, translated from the French edition published in 1994, is the first intellectual biography of pioneering ethnographer Marcel Mauss (1872Mauss ( -1950)). The nephew of sociologist Emile Durkheim, Mauss not only helped to promote the work of his uncle but also influenced the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss and many other social scientists. His wide-ranging intellectual legacy includes the journal he and Durkheim helped to establish, L'Année Sociologique, and The Gift (1925/2000), his influential work on reciprocity and gift economies in archaic societies. Fournier examines the life and oeuvre of Mauss in their academic, social, and political contexts and explores the impact of such world events as the Dreyfus affair and World War I on Mauss's work and on the institutionalization of sociology and anthropology in France. An important focus of the book is Mauss's commitment to the Cooperative and Socialist movements and the extension of his ethnographic work to a critique of contemporary society and efforts at reform. REFERENCE Mauss, M. (2000). The gift: The form and reason for exchange in archaic societies. New York: W. W. Norton. (Original work published 1925.