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Émile 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.
Penn Museum Library HM479.D87 M37 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maryanski, Alexandra, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917.
- Durkheim, Émile.
- Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917. Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse.
- Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse (Durkheim, Émile).
- Sociology.
- Religion.
- Totemism.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 341 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
- Contents:
- Introduction : why write another book on Durkheim?
- A matter of time
- Points of departure
- Networks
- The young sociology professor
- The révélation
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781138580930
- 1138580937
- 9781138587366
- 1138587362
- OCLC:
- 1030446707
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