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Dans ce classique de la sociologie de la connaissance, Durkheim et Mauss proposent de réécrire la table kantienne des catégories : l’acquisition de nos concepts fondamentaux et la maîtrise des jugements logiques qu’ils rendent possibles ne sont pas, selon eux, le fruit des seules forces de l’individu, mais ont en fait une origine sociale. Cette hypothèse, ils la testent sur les concepts de genres et espèces. Ils entendent ainsi établir qu’en Amérique du Nord, chez les aborigènes d’Australie, tout autant que dans le système divinatoire chinois, stratification sociale et genres naturels primitifs se font écho : la classification des choses reproduit celle des hommes. Ce faisant, Durkheim et Mauss suggèrent qu’il y a continuité entre la faculté de classification déployée dans les sociétés primitives et celle à l’œuvre dans nos sciences contemporaines – belle et généreuse manière de mettre en cause le Grand Partage.

Folk classification --- Primitive societies

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This simulating book gathers five lectures that ask questions of the broadest general intellectual interest: What is religion? Do other peoples have the same emotional states as we do? Why do humans make use of body imagery? In Circumstantial Deliveries, Rodney Needham shows that the comparative study of societies may furnish the answers.   Circumstantial Deliveries challenges the methodology and substance of many conventional ideas about human nature and calls for more radical and comparative analyses. For instance, the author discredits the notion that to primitive peoples the colors red, white, and black symbolize blood, semen, and feces, respectively, arguing that an extensive comparative study of primitive societies discovered no such relationship.   These essays sound a common theme: "If a deeper appreciation of the value of life can be had from reading Crime and Punishment, or if a more acute assessment of the springs of action can be acquired from Hamlet, then in principle it should be conceded that like benefits may be derived from a sympathetic observation of other men engaged in their daily affairs."  This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.

Ethnology --- Folk classification. --- Ethnopsychology. --- Philosophy.

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Ranging from issues of taxonomy and naming to the fascinating subject of birds' prophetic associations and their places in religious representations, myth, poetry and song, Gregory Forth's richly detailed work will be invaluable to students of ethnobiology, social and cultural anthropology, folklore, zoology and Southeast Asia."--Jacket. "This book describes in detail the relationship between the Nage people of eastern Indonesia and the birds whose environment they share. Based on more than a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, it explores the ways in which a human society interacts with members of another zoological class and attaches particular values to these in a variety of cultural and conceptual contexts. As well as a fascinating study of the local ornithology of the Indonesian island of Flores, Nage Birds provides a critical review of current theoretical debate regarding how non-western societies categorize and think about non-human forms of animal life.

Nage (Indonesian people) --- Birds --- Folk classification