Primitive Classification (Routledge Revivals)

Zusatztext ‘This is a significant essay because it is the most unqualified expression of its authors’ grand idea that the origins and meaning of mental categories are to be sought in the organisation of societies.’ – The Times Literary Supplement Informationen zum Autor Emile Durkheim, Marcel Mauss Zusammenfassung Claims that the individual mind is capable of classification and they seek the origin of the 'classificatory function' in society. This title argues 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. The Problem 3. The Australian Type of Classification 4. Other Australian Systems 5. Zuñi, Sioux 6. China 7. Conclusions

Product details

• Authors: Emile Durkheim, Emile Mauss Durkheim, Durkheim Emile, Marcel Mauss, Mauss Marcel
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.10.2009
• EAN: 9780415562836
• ISBN: 978-0-415-56283-6
• No. of pages: 566
• Series: Routledge Revivals: Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings in Social Theory
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / General, Social Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social and cultural anthropology, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge