Primitive Classification

Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss

ISBN 10: 0710013159 / ISBN 13: 9780710013156

Published by Cohen & West Ltd., 1963

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1st ed. hardback w/ jacket; unmarked; no bent/torn pp; some foxing to jacket at edges.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Primitive Classification
• Publisher: Cohen & West Ltd.
• Publication Date: 1963
• Language: French
• ISBN 10: 0710013159
• ISBN 13: 9780710013156
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Like New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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

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.