In this man's posthumously-published notebooks, he put forth a concept called the "affective category of the supernatural" to describe what he referred to as the union of feeling and object.
In this man's posthumously-published notebooks, he put forth a concept called the "affective category of the supernatural" to describe what he referred to as the union of feeling and object. One of his books concludes with a chapter entitled "The Transition to the Higher Mental Types," in which he analyzes the chiringa of the Arunta tribe. He argued that modern representations are subjected to the "test of experience," which is in contrast to the "law of participation," where things can simultaneously be themselves and something else. Carl Jung co-opted this man's term "participation mystique" and used his theory of "collective representations" to create the idea of archetypes. He's not Marshall Sahlins, but he wrote a book entitled  How Natives Think, which was explicitly rejected by Evans-Pritchard, specifically for its division of people into those witha "civilized mentality," and those with a pre-logical "primitive mentality." For 10 points, namethis early French sociologist who wrote Primitive Mythology. 
In this man's posthumously-published notebooks, he put forth a concept called the "affective category of the supernatural" to describe what he referred to as the union of feeling and object.
Lucien LÃ©vy-Bruhl