The deep structure of symbolism in religious and ritual activities has hitherto mostly been studied from perspectives deriving from classical and contemporary Western thought, which values symmetry, non-contradiction, equality of terms and the rationality of linear discourse and classification systems have therefore come to be defined in binary terms (right/left, male/female, black/white). In this book, Serge Tcherkezoff presents a new perspective on the study of ritual classification. On the basis of a detailed ethnography of the rituals of the Nyamwezi of Tanzania, Tcherkezoff argues for an...
The deep structure of symbolism in religious and ritual activities has hitherto mostly been studied from perspectives deriving from classical and cont...
La sociologie de Marcel Mauss permet de comprendre la valeur du don dans la societe polynesienne de Samoa. L'ouvrage presente d'abord les concepts que Mauss avait elabores pour fonder une nouvelle sociologie (les notions de "sacre" et de fait social "total," en general et dans leur application a la question du "don"), quelques eclairages sur la maniere dont Louis Dumont a continue dans la meme direction, et le rapport, fait de filiation mais aussi de ruptures, entre Claude Levi-Strauss et Marcel Mauss: la question de l'individu dans la societe, le symbolisme en general et les notions de type...
La sociologie de Marcel Mauss permet de comprendre la valeur du don dans la societe polynesienne de Samoa. L'ouvrage presente d'abord les concepts que...
