Primitive Classification - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Emile Durkheim (Author), Marcel Mauss (Author), Rodney Needham (Translator)Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss maintain that society is the source of th e 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 Back JacketThis 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. Number of Pages: 143 Dimensions: 0.39 x 8 x 5.26 IN Publication Date: September 15, 1967 Show more