The Categorical Impulse: Essays on the Anthropology of Classifying Behavior

by Roy F. Ellen

Book Overview

Classification, as an object of recent anthropological scrutiny came to prominence during the 1960s, exemplified in the British (constructionist) tradition by the writings of Mary Douglas, and in the American ethno-semantics (cognitive) tradition by the likes of Harold Conklin and Brent Berlin. At the time, these approaches seemed by turns to contradict each other, or even to exist in parallel universes. However, over the last 30 years we have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845451554
• ISBN13: 9781845451554
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"