Primitive Classification (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226173344)

Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss maintain that society is the source of the very categories of human thought. First published in the Ann馥 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


Author: Emile Durkheim, Marcel Mauss
ISBN-10: 0226173348
ISBN-13: 9780226173344
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 09/15/1967
Pages: 143
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.26w x 0.39d