Primitive Classification

by Emile Durkheim

2020-11-25 04:34:01

Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss maintain that society is the source of the 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 in... Read more
Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss maintain that society is the source of the 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
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Book Details

File size8 X 5.26 X 0.5 in
Print pages143
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
Publication date September 15, 1967
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780226173344
David Émile Durkheim (15 April 1858 – 15 Nov 1917) was a French sociologist. He formally established the academic discipline of sociology and, with Max Weber, is commonly cited as the principal arc...

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