Laidlaw's critique of this man's work involves a custom among Jain renouncers who cannot cook food and must receive it from Jain families.  One of his works posited the concept of "total presentation" or "total social fact" that drives certain behavior.  Levi-Strauss's introduction to a collection of this man's works claims
Laidlaw's critique of this man's work involves a custom among Jain renouncers who cannot cook food and must receive it from Jain families.  One of his works posited the concept of "total presentation" or "total social fact" that drives certain behavior.  Levi-Strauss's introduction to a collection of this man's works claims a debt to his concepts of mana and algebraic function.  This man established his country's institutes of Sociology and Ethnology, and his most influential work drew heavily on the potlatch custom and Kula exchange.  FTP, name this nephew of Emile Durkheim, a French sociologist who studied various forms of reciprocity among uncivilized peoples, The Gift.
Laidlaw's critique of this man's work involves a custom among Jain renouncers who cannot cook food and must receive it from Jain families.  
Marcel Mauss