Social Origins of Thought - Durkheim, Mauss, and the Category Project

By studying how different societies understand categories such as time and causality, the Durkheimians decentered Western epistemology. With contributions from philosophy, sociology, anthropology, media studies, and sinology, this volume illustrates the interdisciplinarity and intellectual rigor of the "category project" which did not only stir controversies among contemporary scholars but paved the way for other theories exploring how the thoughts of individuals are prefigured by society and vice versa.

About the author

Johannes F.M. Schick is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities (University of Cologne). He was the head of the DFG-research Project “Action, Operation, Gesture: Technology as Interdisciplinary Anthropology”.

Mario Schmidt is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School of the Humanities at the University of Cologne. He has published in distinguished academic journals such as Africa, Journal of Eastern African Studies, Ethnohistory, and Journal of Cultural Economy.

Martin Zillinger is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne. His major field research has been in Morocco on trance, ritual, and new media.

Product details

• Authors: Johannes F.m. Schmidt Schick
• Assisted by: Johannes F. M. Schick (Editor), Johannes F.M. Schick (Editor), Mario Schmidt (Editor), Martin Zillinger (Editor), Zillinger Martin (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781800732339
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-233-9
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: Methodology & History in Anthr; Methodology & History in Anthropology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Cultural Studies, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Cross-cultural / Intercultural studies and topics, Sociology; Theory and Methodology;