Durkheim in Dialogue

Collection of contemporary essays using Durkheimian theory; reclaims classical theory but applies it to current scholarly work.


Bridges multiple areas of the world, multiple disciplines and sub-disciplines, united around a single theoretical approach.


Both theoretical and ethnographic in focus and in the wide range of case studies>


Good introductory overview followed by detailed chapters, linked through common frame: good for scholars and students alike.

Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction: Durkheim in Disciplinary Dialogue
Sondra L. Hausner
Chapter 1. The Notion of Soul and Science Positive: A Retrieval of Durkheim's Method
Karen E. Fields
PART I: SOCIAL FORMS
Chapter 2. Return to Durkheim: Civil Religion and the Moral Reconstruction of China
Zhe Ji
Chapter 3. Elementary Forms of War: Performative Aspects of Youth Militia in Sierra Leone
Paul Richards
Chapter 4. Elementary Forms vs. Psychology in Contemporary Cinema
Louise Child
PART II: COLLECTIVE MINDS
Chapter 5. Durkheim's Sacred-Profane Opposition: What Should We Make of It?
N.J. Allen
Chapter 6. Durkheim and the Primitive Mind: An Archaeological Retrospective
Clive Gamble
Chapter 7. Durkheim, Anthropology, and the Question of the Categories in Les Formes Élémentaires de la vie Religieuse
Susan Stedman Jones
PART III: EFFERVESCENCE
Chapter 8. Is Individual to Collective as Freud is to Durkheim?
Sondra L. Hausner
Chapter 9. Collective Representations, Discourses of Power, and Personal Agency: Three Incommensurate Histories of a Collaborator's Rebellion in the Colonial Sudan
Gerd Baumann
Chapter 10. Actants Amassing (AA): Beyond Collective Effervescence and the Social
Adam Yuet Chau
FIN
Chapter 11. The Creation and Problematic Achievement of Les Formes Élémentaires
W. Watts Miller