# Marcel Mauss

> Émile Durkheim's nephew who turned gifts, magic, and sacrifice into science — and in doing so built the scaffolding for how we study what holds societies together.

*French sociologist and anthropologist (1872-1950)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1872-05-10
- **Died:** 1950-02-10
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born 10 May 1872, Marcel Israël Mauss followed his uncle Émile Durkheim into sociology but refused to stay inside its borders. He ranged across cultures, mapping the invisible rules behind magic, sacrifice, and exchange — treating ritual not as superstition but as social glue. His 1925 essay The Gift argued that seemingly free gestures carry obligation, that generosity binds people in webs of debt and reciprocity. The work became a foundation stone: Claude Lévi-Strauss built structural anthropology on it, and Mauss earned the title "father of French ethnology." He died 10 February 1950, having shown that the stranger the custom, the more universal the logic beneath it.

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