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Book SynopsisThis book is the first intellectual biography of Marcel Mauss (1872-1950), the father of modern ethnology and a leading early figure in the French school of sociology. Mauss left a rich intellectual legacy in the social sciences, influencing the work of Claude Levi-Strauss and others. His masterpiece, the 1925 essay The Gift, on reciprocity and gif
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Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 PART I: DURKHEIM'S NEPHEW 7 CHAPTER 1: Epinal, Bordeaux, Paris 9 CHAPTER 2: Student at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes 37 CHAPTER 3: Rites of Institution: Early Publications and Travel Abroad 56 PART II: THE TOTEM AND TABOO CLAN 81 CHAPTER 4: In the Cenacle 85 CHAPTER 5: Citizen Mauss 96 CHAPTER 6: Rue Saint-Jacques 113 CHAPTER 7: Journalist at Humanite 123 CHAPTER 8: Collective Madness 133 CHAPTER 9: A Heated Battle at the College de France: The Loisy Affair 149 CHAPTER 10: Not a Very Funny War 168 PART III: THE HEIR 185 CHAPTER 11: (The Socialist)Life Goes On 189 CHAPTER 12: A Burdensome Inheritance 215 CHAPTER 13: The Institut d'Ethnologie 233 CHAPTER 14: Sociology, a Lost Cause? 246 PART IV: RECOGNITION 259 CHAPTER 15: A Place at the College de France 263 CHAPTER 16: Where Professors Devour One Another 276 CHAPTER 17: Enough to Make You Despair of Politics 303 CHAPTER 18: The Time of Myths 315 EPILOGUE: The War and Postwar Years 333 Notes 351 Index 427
