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" Primitive classification / "
Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss ; translated from the French with an introduction by Rodney Needham.
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BL
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1024775
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b779145
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Durkheim, Émile,1858-1917.
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Primitive classification /\ Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss ; translated from the French with an introduction by Rodney Needham.
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2nd ed.
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 2009.
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Routledge revivals
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1 online resource (xxxii, 61 pages).
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0203092821
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041556283X
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9780415562836
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 53-55) and index.
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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, hierarc.
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Anthropology-- Philosophy.
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Categorization (Psychology)
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Folk classification.
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Anthropology-- Philosophy.
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Categorization (Psychology)
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Folk classification.
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572.012
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GN490.D813 2009eb
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Mauss, Marcel,1872-1950.
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Needham, Rodney.
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