Emile Durkheim and the birth of the gods : clans, incest, totems, phratries, hordes, mana, taboos, corroborees, sodalities, menstrual blood, apes, churingas, cairns, and other mysterious things / Alexandra Maryanski.
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TextNew York, NY : Routledge, c2018Description: xx, 341 pages 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781138587366;9781138580930;1138580937;1138587362
- HM 479.D87 .M369 2018
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : why write another book on Durkheim? -- A matter of time -- Points of departure -- Networks -- The young sociology professor -- The revelation -- W. Robertson Smith and the Scottish school of totemism -- A turn to religion -- A blueprint for religion -- Smashing totemic blows -- The great totemic march -- Totemism : the elementary religion -- Under the microscope -- The hominoid social legacy -- A sense of community -- The hominoid mind and the self -- The community complex -- Secrets of the totem.
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