The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (French: "Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse" ), published by French sociologist Émile Durkheim in 1912, is a book that analyzes religion as a social phenomenon.
 Durkheim attributes the development of religion to the emotional security attained through communal living.
 His study of totemic societies in Australia led to a conclusion that the animal or plant that each clan worshipped as a sacred power was in fact that society itself.
 Halfway through the text, Durkheim inquisites that, "So if [the totem animal] is at once the symbol of the god and of the society, is that not because the god and the society are only one."
David Émile Durkheim (] ] ; April 15, 1858 – November 15, 1917) was a French sociologist.
 He formally established the academic discipline and—with Karl Marx and Max Weber—is commonly cited as the principal architect of modern social science.
Peter La Farge (born Oliver Albee La Farge, April 30, 1931 - October 27, 1965) was a New York-based folksinger and songwriter of the 1950s and 1960s.
 He is known best for his affiliations with Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash.
Laughing Boy is a 1934 film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and is based on the 1929 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Oliver La Farge.
La Farge Land Office, also known as Orleans Hotel, is a historic commercial building located at Orleans in Jefferson County, New York.
 It was built about 1825 and is a 2-story, five-by-three-bay, side-gabled limestone building in the Federal style.
 A 1 ⁄ -story stone wing extends from the rear of the house and a 1-story wooden addition was completed in 1910.
 It was built by land speculator and French merchant John La Farge, as a land office, residence, and hotel.
 He used it until he returned to New York City in 1838.
La Farge Retainer Houses, also known as Biddlecom House and Budlong House, are two historic homes located at Orleans, Jefferson County, New York.
 They were built about 1835.
 The Biddlecom House is a 2-story, front-gabled limestone building with a side hall entry and 1 ⁄ -story rear wing.
 Also on the property is a small frame garage, decorative cast iron fence, stone wall, and stone carriage step.
 The Budlong House is a 2-story, front-gabled limestone building with a 1 ⁄ -story rear wing.
 They were built by land speculator and French merchant, John La Farge, as "model homes" to attract new settlers to the region.
Laughing Boy is a 1929 novel by Oliver La Farge about the struggles of the Navajo in Southwestern United States to reconcile their culture with that of the United States.
 It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1930.
Jacob Adolphus Holzer (1858–1938) was a Swiss-born designer, muralist, mosaicist, interior designer, and sculptor who was associated with both John La Farge and Augustus Saint-Gaudens before he left to direct the mosaic workshops of Louis Comfort Tiffany, where he was preceded by his friend from La Farge's studio, the German immigrant Joseph Lauber (1855—1948).
 Holzer worked with Tiffany until 1898.
The Rules of Sociological Method (French: "Les Règles de la Méthode Sociologique" ) is a book by Émile Durkheim, first published in 1895.
 It is recognized as being the direct result of Durkheim's own project of establishing sociology as a positivist social science.
 Durkheim is seen as one of the fathers of sociology, and this work, his manifesto of sociology.
 Durkheim distinguishes sociology from other sciences and justifies his rationale.
 Sociology is the science of social facts.
 Durkheim suggests two central theses, without which sociology would not be a science:
Oliver Hazard Perry La Farge II (December 19, 1901 – August 2, 1963) was an American writer and anthropologist.
 In 1925 he explored early Olmec sites in Mexico, and later studied additional sites in Central America and the American Southwest.
 In addition to more than 15 scholarly works, mostly on Native Americans, he wrote several novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning, "Laughing Boy" (1929).
 In addition, La Farge's short stories were published in "The New Yorker" and "Esquire" magazines.
 His more notable works, both fiction and non-fiction, focus on Native American culture.
 He spent much of his adult life championing American Indian rights.
 He was president of the Association on American Indian Affairs for several years .

Question: Were both Émile Durkheim and Oliver La Farge French?
Answer: no