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One hundred years after the publication of the great sociological treatise, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, this new volume shows how aptly Durkheim1s theories still resonate with the study of contemporary and historical religious societies. The volume applies the Durkheimian model to multiple cases, probing its resilience, wondering where it might be tweaked, and asking which aspects have best stood the test of time. A dialogue between theory and ethnography, this book shows how Durkheimian sociology has become a mainstay of social thought and theory, pointing to multiple ways in whi

Religion. --- Totemism. --- Cults. --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Durkheim, Émile,

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In this original and controversial book Professor Rawls argues that Durkheim's The Elementary Forms of Religious Life is the crowning achievement of his sociological endeavour and that since its publication in English in 1915 it has been consistently misunderstood. Rather than a work on primitive religion or the sociology of knowledge, Rawls asserts that it is an attempt by Durkheim to establish a unique epistemological basis for the study of sociology and moral relations. By privileging social practice over beliefs and ideas, it avoids the dilemmas inherent in philosophical approaches to knowledge and morality that are based on individualism and the tendency to privilege beliefs and ideas over practices, both tendencies that dominate western thought. Based on detailed textual analysis of the primary text, this book will be an important and original contribution to contemporary debates on social theory and philosophy.

Religion. --- Totemism. --- Religion --- Totémisme --- Durkheim, Emile, --- Totemism --- Totémisme --- Endogamy and exogamy --- Ethnology --- Mythology --- Taboo --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Durkheim, Émile, --- Social Sciences --- Sociology --- Durkheim, Emile, - 1858-1917. - Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse

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Le totémisme fut l'objet, il y a cent ans, du plus grand débat anthropologique de tous les temps. Cette notion clé de la théorie évolutionniste tomba par la suite en désuétude, en attendant le coup de grâce que lui donna Lévi-Strauss dans Le Totémisme aujourd'hui. Or, elle fut essentielle à l'avènement de l'ethnologie moderne. Des figures comme Franz Boas, Émile Durkheim, Malinowski ou Radcliffe Brown entrèrent en dialogue avec les auteurs évolutionnistes qui avaient lancé la discussion, en particulier l'Écossais James Frazer, auteur du célèbre Rameau d'or. L'ouvrage de Frederico Rosa fait, pour la première fois, l'histoire de ce débat devenu mythique. Son approche, qui contraste avec les tendances postmodernes, prend très au sérieux la vaste bibliographie de la Belle Époque anglaise, française, américaine et germanique traitant du totémisme. D'un nom à l'autre ou au fil des publications d'un même auteur, il dégage les continuités, les ruptures et les interprétations nouvelles. C'est la dramaturgie des idées qui prend ainsi forme, comme dit Patrick Menget dans la préface. Le totémisme, entendu d'abord comme religion du sang que partageaient hommes et animaux, devint aussitôt le prétexte des polémiques les plus acharnées, que l'auteur exhume et éclaire avec le sens du suspense. Le lecteur se prend au jeu, curieux de découvrir comment la parenté et l'anthropologie religieuse se combinent dans le concept stratégique de totémisme, puis se séparent et se transforment. Quant aux autres sciences humaines, elles y trouveront une part de leur histoire, elles aussi, dans la mesure où le débat proprement anthropologique eut d'importantes répercussions sur tous les domaines voisins, de la sociologie et l'histoire des religions à l'archéologie, la philosophie et la psychanalyse.

Totemism --- Totemisme --- Totémisme --- Totemism. --- Ethnology --- History --- Totémisme --- Anthropology --- History. --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Human beings --- Endogamy and exogamy --- Mythology --- Religion --- Taboo --- Ethnology - History - 19th century. --- Ethnology - History - 20th century. --- Emile Durkheim --- totem --- évolutionnisme --- James George Frazer --- totémisme --- ethnographie --- animisme

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First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Primitive societies. --- Totemism. --- Prehistoric peoples. --- Social structure. --- Organization, Social --- Social organization --- Anthropology --- Sociology --- Social institutions --- Cavemen (Prehistoric peoples) --- Early man --- Man, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric archaeology --- Prehistoric human beings --- Prehistoric humans --- Prehistory --- Human beings --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Endogamy and exogamy --- Ethnology --- Mythology --- Religion --- Taboo --- Man, Primitive --- Primitive society --- Society, Primitive --- Social evolution --- Egypt --- Social life and customs --- Primitive societies

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Art, shamanism, and animism are mutable, contested terms which, when brought together, present a highly charged package. Debates around these three terms continue to generate interest and strong opinions in the first decades of the twenty-first century. The editors recognise the urgency to explore them together in an unprecedented exercise which, to date, has only been attempted with reference to selected disciplines, periods, or regions. The contributors to this collection reignite debates around the status of ‘things’ identified as ‘art’ through the lens of theories drawn from new materialism, new animism, and multi-species and relational thinking. They are concerned with how and when art-like things may exceed conventional understandings of ‘art’ and ‘representation’ to fully articulate multiple scenarios or ‘manifestations’ in which they interface with academic discourses around animism and shamanism. The authors put in sharp focus the materiality of art-things while stressing their agentive, emotive, and performative aspects, looking beyond their appearances to what they do and who they may be or become in their dealings with diverse interlocutors. The contributors are united in their recognition that things and images are deeply entangled with how different communities, human and other-than-human, experience life, shifting attention from an obsolete concept of worldview to how reality is perceived through all the senses, in all its aspects, both tangible and intangible.

animism --- totemism --- analogism --- art and architecture --- mortuary practices --- Neolithic Britain and Ireland --- ethnographic analogy --- Saami shamanism --- animals --- power animals --- ritual creativity --- Isogaisa --- Papua New Guinea --- relational ontology --- onto-praxis --- personhood --- dividuality --- gender --- Catholic charismatic Christianity --- charismatic space --- shaman --- material religion --- materiality --- image --- Korea --- ancestor veneration --- animacy --- materiality of stone --- Andes --- Quechua --- extirpation of idolatry --- funerary cult --- Ancash --- Cajatambo --- archaeology --- shamanism --- ontology --- Casas Grandes --- horned-plumed serpent --- American Puebloan Southwest --- art --- connections --- fluidity --- shapeshifting --- spirit world --- subversion --- trance --- Mesoamerica --- art and archaeology --- Indigenous ontology --- relational theory --- divination --- spirit impersonation --- material agency --- Daur shamanism --- social interface --- ritual ceremony --- embodiment of ancestral spirits --- inter-human metamorphosis --- shamanic landscape --- n/a --- museums --- Anishinaabe peoples and language --- pipes --- treaties --- rock art --- New Animisms --- dualism --- multinatural --- hunting --- taming