Geoffrey MacCormack criticized this thinker for his imprecision in conflating the "personality" of an object with a Maori term called the "hau".
Geoffrey MacCormack criticized this thinker for his imprecision in conflating the "personality" of an object with a Maori term called the "hau". He wrote an essay describing actions which are "effective and traditional", including walking and positioning the hands at rest, that he called "body techniques". That essay by this man inspired Norbert Elias's later work on habitus. His most famous book describes a concept which is imbued with "spiritual mechanisms", the most notable of which is reciprocity, in a phenomenon he called (*) "total prestation". That book by this man employs Malinowski's analysis of the kula ring, which he compares to the potlatch system of exchanging the title objects. For 10 points, name this nephew of Emile Durkheim who wrote The Gift.
Geoffrey MacCormack criticized this thinker for his imprecision in conflating the "personality" of an object with a Maori term called the "hau".
Marcel Mauss