Adventures in the Archaic
Primitivism, Degrowth, and the French Social Sciences, 1945–1975
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Adventures in the Archaic
Primitivism, Degrowth, and the French Social Sciences, 1945–1975
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: The Promise of a Certain Primitivism
1. Archaic Religion in a New Key: Georges Bataille at Lascaux
2. The Work of Nostalgia: Henri Lefebvre’s New Theory of Survivals
3. Georges Devereux: Mohave Shamanism and the Future of Ethnopsychiatry
4. Mircea Eliade and Neopaganism as Postcolonial Critique
Epilogue: Primitivism in Our Time
Acknowledgments
Notes
Archives Consulted
Index
Introduction: The Promise of a Certain Primitivism
1. Archaic Religion in a New Key: Georges Bataille at Lascaux
2. The Work of Nostalgia: Henri Lefebvre’s New Theory of Survivals
3. Georges Devereux: Mohave Shamanism and the Future of Ethnopsychiatry
4. Mircea Eliade and Neopaganism as Postcolonial Critique
Epilogue: Primitivism in Our Time
Acknowledgments
Notes
Archives Consulted
Index