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Lucien Lévy-Bruhl  

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  • Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857–1939) was a French philosopher who became an armchair anthropologist. His first and most important anthropological work, How Natives Think, was originally published in France in 1910 as Les Functions Mentales Dans les Sociétés Inférieures and was translated into English only in 1926—3 years after the translation of his second and next most important anthropological work, Primitive Mentality (1923), originally published in France as La MentalitéPrimitive in 1922. [Source: Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia; Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien]

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