{"product_id":"primitive-classification-9780226173344","title":"Primitive Classification","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Emile Durkheim | Marcel Mauss | Rodney Needham\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Life Sciences - Biochemistry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss maintain that society is the source of the very categories of human thought. First published in the \u003ci\u003eAnn�e Sociologique\u003c\/i\u003e in 1903, this classic essay has been translated by Rodney Needham, who also provides a critical introduction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003ePrimitive Classification\u003c\/i\u003e] 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, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Sociology \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Sociological Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47615536267415,"sku":"9780226173344","price":3219.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780226173344.webp?v=1775101546","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/primitive-classification-9780226173344","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}