Les fonctions mentales dans les sociétés inférieures. - LÉVY-BRUHL, L.,
KORTE INHOUD
?This important book will doubtless find many readers; nut so much because of its importance, as because it falls within that interesting borderland which lies between the loosely delimited provinces of sociology, anthropology, psychology and the history of religions. It is written from the point of view of the French sociological school represented by M. Durkheim and hist collaborators of ?L?Année Sociologique?, and its object is to seek precisely what are the directive principles of the mentality of primitive peoples and how these principles make their presence felt in institutions and practices. The author thinks he has been able to determine in what respects the mental mechanism of primitive men differs from ours, and to establish the most general laws of its operations. He thinks that ethnologists and anthropologists have hitherto neglected the social nature of the facts to be explained. This social nature is expressed by the term ?representation collectives?. (?) Collective representations are common to...
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Paris, 1918. 3rd ed. 461p. Rebound. Spine gilt titled. Pages yellowed. Signature on title page. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: LÉVY-BRUHL, L.,] [Uitgever: Felix Alcan] [Jaar: 1918] [Titel: Les fonctions mentales dans les sociétés inférieures.]
