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Primitive Classification - Softcover

Book 3 of 3: Routledge Revivals: Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings in Social Theory

Émile Durkheim

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9780710068910: Primitive Classification
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

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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.

About the Author

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

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