Historical Who is Who

Marcel Mauss was a French anthropologist with direct family and academic background link to Durkheim. The themes of gift-giving and sacrifice were central to his research and writings – as he judged them to be for human relationships and social organisation.

Life

• http://www.anthrobase.com/Dic/eng/pers/mauss_marcel.htm

• http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Marcel_Mauss

• http://www.freewords.org/graeber.html

• http://thememorybank.co.uk/2007/03/20/marcel-mauss-our-guide-to-the-future

Writings

• https://archive.org/details/giftformsfunctio00maus

• http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/mauss_marcel/mauss_marcel.html

• http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/brubaker/Publications/30_mauss%20on%20nationhood.pdf