Primitive Classification

By Émile Durkheim, Marcel Mauss, Emile; Marcel Mauss Durkheim

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226173348
• ISBN13: 9780226173344
• Release Date: September 1967
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.0"