This 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 L?vi-Strauss and others. His masterpiece, the 1925 essay The Gift, on reciprocity and gift economies among archaic societies, remains required reading in anthropology, and his work more broadly resonates today with students and scholars in fields from the history of religion to sociology. 

这本书是马塞尔·莫斯（1872-1950）的第一部知识分子传记，他是现代民族学之父，也是法国社会学学派的早期领军人物。毛斯在社会科学领域留下了丰富的知识遗产，影响了克劳德·勒维·施特劳斯等人的工作。他的代表作，1925年的文章礼物，关于互惠和礼物经济的古老社会，仍然是人类学的必读读物，他的作品更广泛地引起了从宗教史到社会学领域的学生和学者的共鸣。