ISBN:
9780415562836
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (211 p.)
Series Statement:
Routledge Revivals
Parallel Title:
Print version Primitive Classification
DDC:
572.012
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; I; II; III; IV; On some primitive forms of classification contribution to the study of collective representations; THE PROBLEM; Chapter One THE AUSTRALIAN TYPE OF CLASSIFICATION; Chapter Two OTHER AUSTRALIAN SYSTEMS; Chapter Three ZUÑI, SIOUX; Chapter Four CHINA; Chapter Five CONCLUSIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX;
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Description based upon print version of record
