Rejouer les savoirs anthropologiques: de durkheim aux aborigènes

The elementary forms of religious life by Durkheim (2013) largely draw on Spencer and Gillen's observations and analysis of Central Australian rituals. Stemming from 35 years of research across Australia, this article shows that the paradigm of the XXe century has prevented Durkheim to see the importance of the relation to land in the cosmology and ritual practices of Aboriginal people. This paradigm also ignored the reticular dynamism of their totemic cartographies that since colonization Indigenous Australians have been reactualizing through art and social struggles. The Indigenous empowerme...