Contents: Introduction: revisiting Tarde's house / Matei Candea -- "The distance that lay between" : the Tarde-Durkheim debate reconsidered -- The debate, Gabriel Tarde & Emile Durkheim -- Imitation : returning to the Tarde-Durkheim debate / Bruno Karsenti -- The value of a beautiful memory : imitation as borrowing in serious play at making mortuary sculptures in New Ireland / Karen Sykes -- Tarde and Durkheim and the non-sociological ground of sociology / David Toews -- If there is no such thing as society, is ritual still special? : on using the elementary forms after Tarde / Joel Robbins -- One or three : issues of comparison / Timothy Jenkins -- The height, length and width of social theory / Alberto Corsín Jiménez -- Faith, reason and the ethic of craftsmanship : creating contingently stable worlds / Penny Harvey & Soumhya Venkatesan -- Quantifying, tracing, relating : fragments of tardean method -- Tarde's idea of quantification / Bruno Latour -- Gabriel Tarde and statistical movement / Emmanuel Didier -- Tarde's method : between statistics and experimentation / Andrew Barry -- Intervening with the social? : ethnographic practice and Tarde's image of relations between subjects / James Leach -- Tarde on drugs, or measures against suicide / Eduardo Viana Vargas -- On Tardean relations : temporality and ethnography / Georgina Born -- Pass it on : towards a political economy of propensity / Nigel Thrift -- Afterword / Marilyn Strathern

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