Girard was the author of nearly thirty books, with his writings spanning many academic domains. René Noël Théophile Girard ( / ʒ ɪəˈr ɑːr d/ French: 25 December 1923 – 4 November 2015) was a French polymath, historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science whose work belongs to the tradition of philosophical anthropology. Raymund Schwager, James Alison, Robert Barron, Peter Thiel, Timothy Snyder, Jean-Michel Oughourlian, Jacques Ellul It concludes with a theoretical argument proposing that 'the ritual acts, far from abolishing thought, belong to implicit or explicit codes, that action and thought form one and the same system.' Subjects Puberty and initiation Cultural identity and pride Ceremonial during infancy and childhood Cosmology Theory of disease Mythology Conception Childbirth Purification and atonement Disasters Difficult and unusual births Ethnometeorology Community structure Prayers and sacrifices culture Tsonga HRAF PubDate 2010 Region Africa Sub Region Southern Africa Document Type essay Evaluation athropologist-4 Analyst Teferi Abate Adem 2010 Coverage Date 1895-1980 Coverage Place Thonga, Mozambique and SouthAfrica Notes Luc de Heusch Includes bibliographical references (p.Scapegoat mechanism as the origin of sacrifice and foundation of human cultureĬommandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des LettresĬlaude Lévi-Strauss, Marcel Proust, Sigmund Freud, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ferdinand de Saussure, William Shakespeare, Friedrich Nietzsche, Miguel de Cervantes, Augustine of Hippo, Thomas Aquinas, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Edgar Morin, James George Frazer Focusing on the yandla rite, the document offers a privileged reading of the semantic web, spun by both the succession of gestures and the manipulation of objects.

AbstractThis document discusses rites de passage of young children in Thonga society.

Essay Heat, physiology, and cosmogony: rites de passage among the Thonga explorations in african systems of thought

Objects by Luc De Heusch