Primitive Classification - Softcover

Émile Durkheim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0710068913 ISBN 13: 9780710068910

Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC, 1970

Synopsis

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 how, if at all, it differs from sociology and whether it has any unifying theoretical problem."—F. K. Lehman, American Sociological Review

About this title

From the Back Cover

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.

About the Author

Marcel Mauss (1870–1950) was a French sociologist and founding figure of twentieth-century anthropology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC
• Publication date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0710068913
• ISBN 13: 9780710068910
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144