| Titre | De la généalogie considérée comme un assassinat | |
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| Auteur | Jean Jamin | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 95-96, 1984 La violence | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Ethnographie de la violence |
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| Page | 221-240 | |
| Résumé anglais |
On Genealogy Considered as a Murder
How beautiful was the murder ! From provocative scheme laid down in T. de Quincey's On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts, this essay investigates the formula according to a couple of points of view : a literary one with an analysis of G. Büchner's drama Woyzeck and an anthropological one with an analysis of the Gevaudan's rural society in the 18th and 19th centuries. Both stage closely linked acts of violence from lowly or social outcasts who perpetrate them against their own relatives. Both alike seem to confirm the post-durkheimian «labelling» theory in crime, which asserts that societies somehow need their quotas of deviation and function in such a way as to keep them intact. The esthetical features of genealogical crimes which are observed here, let infer that murder in the family is nothing but a sacrifice. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rural_0014-2182_1984_num_95_1_3034 |
