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Article: Durkheim reconsidered. (Books Reviews: Theory).
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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- September 1, 2002
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STEDMAN JONES, SUSAN. Durkheim reconsidered. x, 274 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: Polity, 2001. [pounds sterling]15.99 (paper)
Should anthropologists be reading and learning from Emile Durkheim or just consider him a 'dead duck' worth only a mention in passing? Will we shortly sec the process of his 'denaturation, forgetfulness and suppression', as Dominique Merllie has suggested in relation to Lucien Levy-Bruhl? Perhaps it would be fair to indicate that while in the past few decades, starting with the publication of Steve Lukes's intellectual biography of Durkheim, there has been a process of enrichment of Durkheim's contribution to the formation of the social ...