Primitive Classification

Name: Primitive Classification
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ISBN: 9780226173344

ISBN-10: 0226173348

ISBN-13: 9780226173344

Edition: 1967

Authors: Emile Durkheim, Marcel Mauss, Rodney Needham

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Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss maintain that society is the source of the very categories of human thought. First published in the Anneacute;e Sociologique in 1903, this classic essay has been translated by Rodney Needham, who also provides a critical introduction. "[Primitive Classification] will impress the reader with its quiet elegance, its direct, logical form, its clarity of style, its spirit of careful, yet bold, exploration."--Harry Alpert, American Journal of Sociology "Particularly instructive for anyone who wonders what social anthropology is: how, if at all, it differs from sociology and whether it has any unifying theoretical problem."--F. K. Lehman, American Sociological…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1967
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/15/1967
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 143
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.91" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) was a French sociologist who formally established the academic discipline and, with Karl Marx and Max Weber, is commonly cited as the principal architect of modern social science.



Introduction


On Some Primitive Forms of Classification: Contribution to the Study of Collective Representations


The Problem



The Australian type of classification



Other Australian systems



Zuntilde;i, Sioux



China



Conclusions


Index