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Born May 10, 1872 • Épinal • France
Died February 10, 1950 (aged 77) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study gift exchange • Melanesia • North America • Polynesia
Dumont d'Urville, engraving by Émile Lassalle after Maurin
Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d’Urville
French explorer
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss
French anthropologist
Elsie Clews Parsons.
Elsie Clews Parsons
American anthropologist
W. Lloyd Warner
American sociologist
C.G. Seligman
British anthropologist
Richard Thurnwald
German ethnologist
R.H. Codrington
British anthropologist and priest
Edward Westermarck
Finnish sociologist
W. H. R. Rivers
British anthropologist
A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
British anthropologist
Émile Durkheim
Émile Durkheim
French social scientist
Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte
French philosopher
Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour
French sociologist and anthropologist
Jean Baudrillard
French author and philosopher
Raymond Aron
French sociologist
Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu
French sociologist and public intellectual
Henri de Tonty
French explorer
Guilluame-Thomas, abbé de Raynal, detail of an engraving by Nicolas Delaunay, 1780, after a drawing by Charles-Nicolas Cochin.
Guillaume-Thomas Raynal, abbé de Raynal
French author
Frédéric Le Play
French sociologist
Gabriel Tarde, c. 1899.
Gabriel Tarde
French sociologist