Marcel Mauss, French sociologist and anthropologist (born 1872)

Marcel Mauss

French sociologist and anthropologist (1872–1950)

Marcel Israël Mauss was a French sociologist and anthropologist known as the "father of French ethnology". 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…