PERSIAN TRANSLATION · ENGLISH INTRODUCTION
Primitive Classification
How does society give order to the world? An inquiry into classification, thought and collective life.
By Émile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss
Persian translation by Erfan Ranjbar, Nadia Azizi and Reza Javidi
Chapar Publishing & Asatir Parsi Publishing
01 / THE CENTRAL QUESTION
Where do categories of thought come from?
Durkheim and Mauss examine how social organisation relates to the categories through which people order the world. Systems from Australia, Zuñi and Sioux communities, and China inform their argument about symbolic classification and collective life.
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02 / THREE THEMES
From social life to conceptual order
These themes offer an editorial route into the book’s central question.
Classification
Ways of grouping and relating things in connection with collective life.
Society
The relationship between social groups and symbolic systems.
Thought
A question about the social formation of categories and conceptual order.
03 / THE PATH OF THE ARGUMENT
Topics in the original work
- Introduction
- The problem
- The Australian type of classification
- Other Australian systems
- Zuñi and Sioux
- China
- Conclusions
- Index
This map follows the English publisher’s contents. It is not the verified table of contents or pagination of the Persian edition.
04 / READERS
For reading and discussion
For readers of sociology, anthropology and knowledge studies, the work provides a point of departure for questions and critical discussion. Its connection to knowledge organisation is a reading perspective proposed here.
Sociology
A classic question about the relationship between thought and society.
Anthropology
An introduction to symbolic order through the work’s comparative inquiry.
Knowledge studies
An opportunity to reflect on the social context of categorising and organising concepts.
05 / CONTEXT
From a classic work to its Persian translation
An introduction for critical reading
The original work first appeared in 1903. The English edition is associated with Rodney Needham’s translation and critical introduction; the supplied Persian cover also identifies his introduction as an appendix.
06 / CONTRIBUTORS
Three translators, one collaboration
Persian translation by Erfan Ranjbar, Nadia Azizi and Reza Javidi.
Émile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss are the authors of the original work. Reza Javidi’s contribution is as a co-translator of the Persian edition.
Erfan Ranjbar
Co-translator
Nadia Azizi
Co-translator
Reza Javidi
Co-translator
07 / TRANSLATION & PUBLICATION
The Persian edition
- Persian title
- ردهبندی بدوی
- English title
- Primitive Classification
- Authors
- Émile Durkheim, Marcel Mauss
- Translators
- Erfan Ranjbar, Nadia Azizi, Reza Javidi
- Publishers
- Chapar Publishing and Asatir Parsi Publishing
- Language of this edition
- Persian
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