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Primitive Classification (Routledge Revivals)

Primitive Classification (Routledge Revivals)

Durkheim, Emile
Mauss, Marcel

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Revivals: Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings in Soc

PhilosophyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 041556283X
ISBN13: 9780415562836
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 1 2009
Pages: 566
Weight: 1.76
Height: 1.25 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

In this influential work, first published in English in 1963, Durkheim and Mauss claim that the individual mind is capable of classification and they seek the origin of the 'classificatory function' in society. On the basis of an intensive examination of forms and principles of symbolic classification reported from the Australian aborigines, the Zuñi and traditional China, they try to establish a formal correspondence between social and symbolic classification. From this they argue that the mode of classification is determined by the form of society and that the notions of space, time, hierarchy, number, class and other such cognitive categories are products of society.

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