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Primitive Classification (Paperback)

by Emile Durkheim (Author), Marcel Mauss (Author), Rodney Needham (Translator) "THE MOST SIMPLE SYSTEMS of classification known are those found among the tribes of Australia..." (more)
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‘This is a significant essay because it is the most unqualified expression of its authors’ grand idea that the origins and meaning of mental categories are to be sought in the organisation of societies.’ – The Times Literary Supplement --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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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 Année 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 Review

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Paperback: 143 pages
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; Later printing edition (September 15, 1967)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0226173348
ISBN-13: 978-0226173344
Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 5.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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tribal space, carpet snake, totemic groups, marriage classes, symbolic classification, two moieties, black cockatoo, white cockatoo, descent systems

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Mount Gambier, Torres Straits

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