Primitive Mentality by Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
An influential anthropological study proposing that many non-Western societies operate with a “prelogical” mode of thought shaped by mystical participation and collective representations, allowing apparent contradictions and intertwining causality, identity, and moral order; drawing on travelers’ and missionaries’ reports, it contrasts this mentality with Western rationalism and explores how belief, ritual, and social bonds organize experience while acknowledging the limits of such generalizations.
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- Published
- 1922
- Nationality
- French
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 400-450
- Original Language
- French
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- - La mentalité primitive
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