Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss maintain that society is the source of the very categories of human thought. First published in the Annee 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
- ISBN10 0226173348
- ISBN13 9780226173344
- Publish Date 15 September 1967
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 113
- Language English