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Categories and classifications : Maussian reflections on the social / N.J. Allen.
Penn Museum Library GN21.M33 A45 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allen, N. J.
- Series:
- Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 8.
- Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mauss, Marcel, 1872-1950.
- Mauss, Marcel.
- Ethnology--Philosophy.
- Ethnology.
- Classification.
- Physical Description:
- 165 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2000.
- Contents:
- 1. The category of the person: a reading of Mauss's last essay 19
- 2. Primitive classification: the argument and its validity 39
- 3. The division of labour and the notion of primitive society 61
- 4. Effervescence and the origins of human society 75
- 5. Mauss and the categories 91
- 6. Reflections on Mauss and classification 101
- 7. Magic, religion and Indo-European ideology 117.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-158) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1571818081
- 1571818243
- OCLC:
- 45314011
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