biography
pronunciation:
[mohs]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1872–1950)
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| biography:
| Sociologist and anthropologist, born in Epinal, E France. He studied philosophy at Bordeaux, and the history of religion at Paris. In 1902 he became professor of primitive religion at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, and in 1925 was co-founder of the Institute of Ethnology at Paris University. From 1931 to 1939 he was at the Collège de France. After World War 1, he devoted himself to editing the work of the Année school and to writing his masterpiece, Essai sur le don (1925, Essay on the Gift), in which he demonstrated the importance of gift exchange in primitive social organization. |
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