Durkheim, the Durkheimians, and the Arts Roy Harris

Durkheim, the Durkheimians, and the Arts Roy HarrisUsing a broad definition of the Durkheimian tradition, this book offers the first systematic attempt to explore the Durkheimians engagement with art. It focuses on both Durkheim and his contemporaries as well as later thinkers influenced by his work. The first five chapters consider Durkheims own exploration of art; the remaining six look at other Durkheimian thinkers, including Marcel Mauss, Henri Hubert, Maurice Halbwachs, Claude Lvi Strauss, Michel

and four deal with the decorative arts of the Timurid period

Oton de Granson

Balancing the intense emotional impact of Sarah's first-person account

these portraits of the artists as young men and women illuminate not only the anxiety but the necessity of influence-and the treasures it yields

awareness of individual and cultural differences

Working in the home of a wealthy aristocrat

James Taylor Carson is Professor of History and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Queen's University

his grip on the city of Chicago begins to loosen

In spite of the obvious flows and exchanges that constitute pan-East Asian Pop Culture as a relatively coherent unit

and new modes of regulation

This book takes a step beyond anthropology at home and auto-ethnography and shows how anthropologists can include their memories and experiences as ethnographic data in their writing

and anti-imperialists