TY  - BOOK
AU  - Durkheim,Émile
AU  - Fields,Karen E.
TI  - The elementary forms of religious life
SN  - 0029079365
AV  - GN470 .D813 1995
U1  - 306.6 20
PY  - 1995///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Free Press
KW  - Religion
KW  - Totemism
N1  - Ethnographic map of Australia on endpapers; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction --; Note on the Text --; Select Bibliography --; A Chronology of Emile Durkheim --; Map --; The Elementary Forms of Religious Life --; Introduction --; 1; A Definition of the Religious Phenomenon and of Religion --; 2; The Leading Conceptions of Elementary Religion: I. Animism --; 3; The Leading Conceptions of Elementary Religion: II. Naturism --; 4; Totemism as Elementary Religion: Historical Review of the Question, Method of Treating It --; 1; Central Totemic Beliefs: I. The Totem as Name and Emblem --; 2; Central Totemic Beliefs: II. The Totemic Animal and Man --; 3; Central Totemic Beliefs: III. The Cosmological System of Totemism and the Notion of Genus --; 4; Central Totemic Beliefs: IV. The Individual Totem and the Sexual Totem --; 5; The Origins of These Beliefs: I. A Critical Examination of the Theories --; 6; The Origins of These Beliefs: II. The Notion of the Totemic Principle or Mana, and the Idea of Force --; 7; The Origins of These Beliefs: III. The Genesis of the Notion of the Totemic Principle or Mana --; 8; The Notion of Soul --; 9; The Notion of Spirits and Gods --; 1; The Negative Cult and its Functions: Ascetic Rites --; 2; The Positive Cult: I. The Element of Sacrifice --; 3; The Positive Cult: II. Mimetic Rites and the Principle of Causality --; 4; The Positive Cult: III. Representative of Commemorative Rites --; 5; Piacular Rites and the Ambiguity of the Notion of the Sacred --; Conclusion --; App; Select List of Anthropologists and Ethnologists who Informed Durkheim's Work --; Explanatory Notes --; Index
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