Une école « géométrique » d’anthropologie historique dans le sillage de Durkheim
The present paper attempts to bring the school that developed after Jean-Pierre Vernant within the legacy of another, the school of Emile Durkheim. Such a contextualisation revolves around a particular aspect: the interpretation of cosmological ideas on the basis of the social structures of ancient...
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| Language: | English |
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Anthropologie et Histoire des Mondes Antiques
2020-06-01
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| Series: | Cahiers Mondes Anciens |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/mondesanciens/2747 |
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| Summary: | The present paper attempts to bring the school that developed after Jean-Pierre Vernant within the legacy of another, the school of Emile Durkheim. Such a contextualisation revolves around a particular aspect: the interpretation of cosmological ideas on the basis of the social structures of ancient societies. The paper follows the diffusion of such a method within the publications of the sixties by Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Pierre Lévêque et Marcel Detienne – all in all what one could call a Paris-Besançon School. Particular attention is given to geometric patterns, used as a scheme providing a common intelligibility to social practices and cosmological ideas. Consequently, we try to assess what such developments owe to Durkheim and Mauss, through the mediation of Louis Gernet, also drawing a comparison with the way British philologists have received the inspiration of the French school of sociology. The proximity with the durkheimian model places historical anthropology of Ancient Greece in a particular place within the contemporary debate in anthropology and in social sciences. |
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| ISSN: | 2107-0199 |