How Natives Think
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"How Natives Think" is an early 20th-century anthropological and philosophical study by Lucien Lévy-Bruhl that controversially argues so-called "primitive" societies possess a fundamentally different, more mystical mode of thought than Western rationalism.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| How Natives Think canonical | 1 |
| How Natives Think: About Captain Cook, For Example | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21100748 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: How Natives Think Context triple: [Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, notableWork, How Natives Think]
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The North American Indian
The North American Indian is a monumental early 20th-century photographic and ethnographic series by Edward S. Curtis documenting the lives, cultures, and traditions of numerous Native American tribes across North America.
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On Native Grounds
On Native Grounds is a landmark 1942 work of literary criticism by Alfred Kazin that surveys and interprets the development of modern American literature.
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C.
The Vanishing American
The Vanishing American is a 1925 silent Western film, based on Zane Grey’s novel, that sympathetically portrays the plight of Native Americans amid the encroachment of white settlers.
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D.
The Vanishing American
The Vanishing American is a 1955 Western film that explores the struggles and displacement of Native Americans in the modernizing American West.
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E.
Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians
Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians is George Catlin’s influential 19th-century ethnographic work documenting the lives, cultures, and traditions of numerous Native American tribes he encountered in the American West.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: How Natives Think Target entity description: "How Natives Think" is an early 20th-century anthropological and philosophical study by Lucien Lévy-Bruhl that controversially argues so-called "primitive" societies possess a fundamentally different, more mystical mode of thought than Western rationalism.
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A.
The North American Indian
The North American Indian is a monumental early 20th-century photographic and ethnographic series by Edward S. Curtis documenting the lives, cultures, and traditions of numerous Native American tribes across North America.
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B.
On Native Grounds
On Native Grounds is a landmark 1942 work of literary criticism by Alfred Kazin that surveys and interprets the development of modern American literature.
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C.
The Vanishing American
The Vanishing American is a 1925 silent Western film, based on Zane Grey’s novel, that sympathetically portrays the plight of Native Americans amid the encroachment of white settlers.
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D.
The Vanishing American
The Vanishing American is a 1955 Western film that explores the struggles and displacement of Native Americans in the modernizing American West.
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E.
Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians
Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians is George Catlin’s influential 19th-century ethnographic work documenting the lives, cultures, and traditions of numerous Native American tribes he encountered in the American West.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: How Natives Think