science · 10 May 1872 · 152 years ago
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Born 10 May 1872; died 10 Feb 1950 at age 77.
French sociologist and anthropologist whose contributions include a highly original comparative study of the relation between forms of exchange and social structure. His views on the theory and method of ethnology are thought to have influenced many eminent social scientists, including Claude Lévi-Strauss and A.R. Radcliffe-Brown.
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