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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
"[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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This book is 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.
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Marcel Mauss (1870–1950) was a French sociologist and founding figure of twentieth-century anthropology.
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- PublisherCohen & West Ltd.
- Publication date1963
- ISBN 10 0710013159
- ISBN 13 9780710013156
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages144
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey.] Near fine. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Small tear to jacket. Clean, unmarked pages. xlviii, 96 p., 22 cm. "Durkheim and Mauss claim that the individual mind is incapable of classification, and they seek the origin of the 'classificatory function' in society. On the basis of an intensive examination of forms and principles of symbolic classification reported from the Australian aborigines, the Zuni and traditional China, they try to establish a formal correspondence between social and symbolic classification." "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation." - Johns Hopkins University. Seller Inventory # 2006230060
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Book Description Hardcover. First Edition UK, so stated. Hardback: Lacks DJ. Very Good: Book shows light wear to extremities, heaviest at lower front corner, which has just worn through to board; slight spine lean; former owner's rubber stamp at front pastedown; binding secure; text clean. Overall, remains a clean, sturdy, presentable copy. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. xlviii, 96pp. Text in English. Translated, with an Introduction by Rodney Needham. Hardback: Lacks DJ. Seller Inventory # 28583
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