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This article proposes a pairing of two classical texts – Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), by Émile Durkheim, and Negerplastik (1915), by Carl Einstein –, of two apparently distant disciplines – anthropology and art history – in order to trace points of convergence and divergence among these two modes of knowledge. Both texts are grounded on the difference between the sacred and the profane, and describe thoroughly the process through which the sacred is necessarily externalized in an object, giving it not only a representation, but also a presence in the world of senses. The durkheimean approach will emphasize the transcendence of social-religious phenomenon, whereas the einsteinean approach will take a further look on the materiality itself of the sacred. These differences of analysis allow us to sketch the contours of two different epistemes, e their respective implications on theory and method. That is: what are the questions posed by anthropology in face of the sacred object? What are the questions posed by art history in the face of the sacred object?
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