Primitive Classification

Primitive Classification

<div>Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss maintain that society is the source of the very categories of human thought. First published in the <I>Ann©e Sociologique</I> in 1903, this classic essay has been translated by Rodney Needham, who also provides a critical introduction.<br><br>"[<I>Primitive Classification</I>] 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, <I>American Journal of Sociology </I><br><br>"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, <I>American Sociological Review </I><br></div>