ANT E101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Collective Effervescence, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Kinship
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Durkheim: and collective effervescence" of the group something like it is the social glue. Something like religion, or religious impulse is important, religion or. People in groups, can experience a sense of themselves that is beyond. Totems and the construction of difference that works. We need each other for our differences, different jobs a complex network. Totemism: catch all term for a range of religious and social organization. A totem is a stand in for a group. A descent group (clan) the name of the clan becomes the totem. I am come from the jaguar clan, the jaguar is the totem. Animals are good to think levi strauss. Groups that make a lot out of identifying with a totem, these animals or aspects of nature, they has a whole set of relationships that are systematically opposed (bears and fish have a relationship but they are opposed) Nature thinks through the differences that you want to apply to your own group.
