The savage mind

Summary: The author demonstrates how each culture has its own system of the concepts and categories derived from experience and imposed by the surrounding natural world. Through the order in the naming of plants and animals, concepts of space and time, myths and rituals, primitive societies engage in a high level of abstract reasoning different from but not necessarily inferior to that involved in cultivated "systematic thought."

Record details

ISBN: 9780226474847
ISBN: 0226474844
ISBN: 9780226474830
ISBN: 0226474836
Physical Description: xii, 290 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 23 cm.
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Publisher: [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press, [1966]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-282) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The science of the concrete -- The logic of totemic classifications -- Systems of transformations -- Totem and caste -- Categories, elements, species, numbers -- Universalization and particularization -- The individual as a species -- Time regained -- History and dialectic.