Jean-Louis Durand. Sacrificing in Greece and Elsewhere: From the Anthropologist and the Field.
Million| N° d'inventaire | 26030 |
| Format | 16 x 24 |
| Détails | 640 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Grenoble, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782841374038 |
The work brings together all the texts published by Jean-Louis Durand (1939-2016), with the exception of the book Sacrifice and plowing, published in 1986. It responds to an old project, long postponed, aiming less to collect old publications than to give voice to an approach and a path, this "profound alteration of oneself by which anthropological work is initiated".
Jean-Louis Durand established the title, the structure, and the headings of the various sections. Death prevented him from preparing the introduction and from carrying out the series of interviews that would have completed it, his teaching – which has profoundly influenced several generations of researchers – having remained very largely oral. The book nevertheless allows us to take stock of the work, one of the very first for French-speaking anthropology, the comparative practice, the understanding of societies with multiple gods (those of Greek Antiquity in particular) that he renews from the epistemological rupture induced by his immersion in a living polytheistic and sacrificial culture (the Winyé of Burkina Faso) and his familiarity with cultures linked to ritual forms of possession.
Close to Jean-Pierre Vernant "whom he never ceased to recognize as his master despite the theoretical distances induced by his own journey" or to Marcel Detienne with whom he shared all the comparative adventures, he is, with Charles Malamoud, Michel Cartry or John Scheid one of the major actors of a ritualist turn in anthropology. His reflections on the rite as a system of gestures (also in the image) and on ritual devices led him to formulate propositions that any anthropologist, historian of religions or practitioner of Ritual Studies must consider.
"Anthropology is not, in his eyes, just another field of intellectual activity, but a true inner experience, another way of living and thinking, where the researcher is invested from within by the very object of his research."
A fundamental book that will inspire any reader who wants to build a liberated view of the world.
The work brings together all the texts published by Jean-Louis Durand (1939-2016), with the exception of the book Sacrifice and plowing, published in 1986. It responds to an old project, long postponed, aiming less to collect old publications than to give voice to an approach and a path, this "profound alteration of oneself by which anthropological work is initiated".
Jean-Louis Durand established the title, the structure, and the headings of the various sections. Death prevented him from preparing the introduction and from carrying out the series of interviews that would have completed it, his teaching – which has profoundly influenced several generations of researchers – having remained very largely oral. The book nevertheless allows us to take stock of the work, one of the very first for French-speaking anthropology, the comparative practice, the understanding of societies with multiple gods (those of Greek Antiquity in particular) that he renews from the epistemological rupture induced by his immersion in a living polytheistic and sacrificial culture (the Winyé of Burkina Faso) and his familiarity with cultures linked to ritual forms of possession.
Close to Jean-Pierre Vernant "whom he never ceased to recognize as his master despite the theoretical distances induced by his own journey" or to Marcel Detienne with whom he shared all the comparative adventures, he is, with Charles Malamoud, Michel Cartry or John Scheid one of the major actors of a ritualist turn in anthropology. His reflections on the rite as a system of gestures (also in the image) and on ritual devices led him to formulate propositions that any anthropologist, historian of religions or practitioner of Ritual Studies must consider.
"Anthropology is not, in his eyes, just another field of intellectual activity, but a true inner experience, another way of living and thinking, where the researcher is invested from within by the very object of his research."
A fundamental book that will inspire any reader who wants to build a liberated view of the world.