Crowds and Power

Part 1 The crowd: the fear of being touched; the open and closed crowd; the discharge; destructiveness; the eruption; persecution; domestication of crowds in the world religions; panic; the crowd as a ring; the attributes of the crowd; rhythm; stagnation; slowness, or the remoteness of the goal; invisible crowds; classification of crowds according to their prevailing emotion; baiting crowds; flight crowds; prohibition crowds; reversal crowds; feast crowds; the double crowd - men and women, the living and the dead; the double crowd - war; crowd crystals; crowd symbols - fire, the sea, rain, rivers, forest, corn, wind, sand, the heap, stone heaps, treasure. Part 2 The pack: the pack - kinds of pack; hunting pack; the war pack; the lamenting pack; the increase pack; the communion; inward and tranquil packs; the pack's determination, the historical premanence of packs; packs in the ancestor legends of the Aranda; temporary formation among the Aranda. Part 3 The pack and religion: the transmutation of packs; hunting and the forest among the Lele of Kasai; the war booty and the Jivaros; the rain dances of the Pueblo Indians; on the dynamics of war, the first death, the triumph; Islam as a religion of war; the religions of lament; the Muharram festival of the Shiites; Catholicism and the crowd; the Holy Fire in Jerusalem. Part 4 The crowd in history: national crowd symbols - the English, the Dutch, the Germans, the French, the Swiss, the Spaniards, the Italians, the Jews; Germany and Versailles; inflation and the crowd; the nature of the parliamentary system; distribution and increase, socialism and production; the self-destruction of the Xosas. Part 5 The entrails of power: seizing and incorporation; the hand - the patience of the hand, the finger exercises of monkeys, the hands and the birth of objects, destructiveness in monkeys and men, the killers are always the powerful; on the psychology of eating. Part 6 The survivor: the survivor; survival and invulnerability; survival as a passion; the rules as survivor; the escape of Josephus; the despot's hostility to survivors, rulers and their successors; forms of survival; the survivor in primitive belief; the resentment of the dead; epidemics; cemetries; immortality. Part 7 Elements of power. Part content.