La Civilisation du renne. Littérature imprécations nocturnes

imprécations nocturnes

It is therefore in the subsoil that we must seek the history of Marseille

Philip Guston

Le Geste et la parole

La Civilisation du renne. Littérature imprécations nocturnesAndr Leroi Gourhan's first book, published in 1936, deserved a second edition. La Civilisation du renne, dedicated to Marcel Mauss, is certainly a youthful book, as Lucien Febvre points out, but it is also a promising book, a milestone book, because the extreme ambition of the author, then aged 25, pushed him to multiply the incursions into a considerable number of disciplines (geography, ethnology, technology, prehistory, orientalism) which he