La pertinencia del Ensayo sobre el don de Marcel Mauss

2022 marked the 150th anniversary of Marcel Mauss's birth. Along with him, his work is recognized as a source and inspiration for countless contemporary anthropological works. His writings favored multiple theoretical currents and influenced dozens of anthropologists: from the structuralism of Levi Strauss to Marcel Griaule, Maurice Leenhardt, Louis Dumont and Roger Bastide, among others. In a modern world characterized by the economic logic of the market, interest, consumption and profit, a revision of Mauss' work, such as the one carried out by Alain Caillé's Movement Anti-utilitarianism in Social Sciences (MAUSS) (2000), can mean significant rediscoveries in contemporary societies of other hidden logics involving reciprocities driven by the symbolic.