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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Main Author: Arnaud Macé
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Language:English
Published: Anthropologie et Histoire des Mondes Antiques 2020-06-01
Series:Cahiers Mondes Anciens
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/mondesanciens/2747
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description 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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spelling doaj-art-cfc1280ed62f463fa97b3dad02a5f9ea2025-08-20T02:02:32ZengAnthropologie et Histoire des Mondes AntiquesCahiers Mondes Anciens2107-01992020-06-011310.4000/mondesanciens.2747Une école « géométrique » d’anthropologie historique dans le sillage de DurkheimArnaud MacéThe 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.https://journals.openedition.org/mondesanciens/2747Marcel MaussJean-Pierre VernantPierre Vidal-NaquetPierre LévêqueMarcel DetienneÉmile Durkheim
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Une école « géométrique » d’anthropologie historique dans le sillage de Durkheim
Cahiers Mondes Anciens
Marcel Mauss
Jean-Pierre Vernant
Pierre Vidal-Naquet
Pierre Lévêque
Marcel Detienne
Émile Durkheim
title Une école « géométrique » d’anthropologie historique dans le sillage de Durkheim
title_full Une école « géométrique » d’anthropologie historique dans le sillage de Durkheim
title_fullStr Une école « géométrique » d’anthropologie historique dans le sillage de Durkheim
title_full_unstemmed Une école « géométrique » d’anthropologie historique dans le sillage de Durkheim
title_short Une école « géométrique » d’anthropologie historique dans le sillage de Durkheim
title_sort une ecole geometrique d anthropologie historique dans le sillage de durkheim
topic Marcel Mauss
Jean-Pierre Vernant
Pierre Vidal-Naquet
Pierre Lévêque
Marcel Detienne
Émile Durkheim
url https://journals.openedition.org/mondesanciens/2747
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