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“robert hertz”

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  • Saints, Heroes, Myths, and Rites

    Classical Durkheimian Studies of Religion and Society

    by Marcel Mauss, Henri Hubert, Robert Hertz ...
    Classical Durkheimian Studies of Myth and the Sacred presents English translations of several important essays, some never before translated, by members of the famous Annee sociologique group around Emile Durkheim. These works by Marcel Mauss, Henri Hubert, and Robert Hertz are key contributions to today's growing interest in and reinterpretation of Durkheimian thought on culture, religion, and ... Read more

    $305.00 USD

  • Death and the right hand

    by Robert Hertz ...
    Translated by Claudia Needham, Rodney Needham ...
    First published in English 1960. The historical value of Hertz's writings is that they are a representative example of the culmination of two centuries of development of sociological thought in France, from Montesquieu to Durkheim and his pupils. In the intervening years since publication, that development has grown into the systematic comparative study of primitive institutions, based on a great ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • The Rites of Passage

    by Arnold van Gennep ...
    This classic work of anthropology explores the transitional stages of an individual's life and the societal rituals involved.Arnold van Gennep's masterwork, The Rites of Passage, has been a staple of anthropological education for more than a century. First published in French in 1909, and translated into English by the University of Chicago Press in 1960, this landmark book explores how the life ... Read more

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  • ETHICS

    ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT

    by Peter Kropotkin ...
    Kropotkin’s Ethics: Origin and Development is, in a sense, a continuation of his well-known work, “Mutual Aid as a Factor of Evolution.” The basic ideas of the two books are closely connected, almost inseparable, in fact: — the origin and progress of human relations in society. Only, in the “Ethics” Kropotkin approaches his theme through a study of the ideology of these relations removing ethics ... Read more

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  • The Other Face of the Moon

    by Claude Lévi-Strauss ...
    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    Gathering for the first time all of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s writings on Japanese civilization, The Other Face of the Moon forms a sustained meditation into the French anthropologist’s dictum that to understand one’s own culture, one must regard it from the point of view of another.Exposure to Japanese art was influential in Lévi-Strauss’s early intellectual growth, and between 1977 and 1988 he ... Read more

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  • Defining Magic

    A Reader

    by Bernd-Christian Otto, Michael Stausberg ...
    Series series Critical Categories in the Study of Religion
    Magic has been an important term in Western history and continues to be an essential topic in the modern academic study of religion, anthropology, sociology, and cultural history. Defining Magic is the first volume to assemble key texts that aim at determining the nature of magic, establish its boundaries and key features, and explain its working. The reader brings together seminal writings from ... Read more

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  • Images and Symbols

    Studies in Religious Symbolism

    by Mircea Eliade ...
    Translated by Philip Mairet ...
    Series series Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
    Mircea Eliade--one of the most renowned expositors of the psychology of religion, mythology, and magic--shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode of thought that not only came before that of discursive and logical reasoning, but is still an essential function of human consciousness. He describes and analyzes some of the most powerful and ubiquitous symbols that have ruled the mythological ... Read more

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  • Approaches to Greek Myth

    by Lowell Edmunds ...
    "A handy introduction to some of the more useful methodological approaches to and the previous scholarship on the subject of Greek myths." — PhoenixSince the first edition of Approaches to Greek Myth was published in 1990, interest in Greek mythology has surged. There was no simple agreement on the subject of "myth" in classical antiquity, and there remains none today. Is myth a narrative or a ... Read more

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  • Lectures on the Philosophy of World History

    by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ...
    Translated by Hugh Barr Nisbet ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics
    An English translation of Hegel's introduction to his lectures on the philosophy of history, based directly on the standard German edition by Johannes Hoffmeister, first published in 1955. The previous English translation, by J. Sibree, first appeared in 1857 and was based on the defective German edition of Karl Hegel, to which Hoffmeister's edition added a large amount of new material previously ... Read more

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  • The Spirit of Mourning

    History, Memory and the Body

    by Paul Connerton ...
    How is the memory of traumatic events, such as genocide and torture, inscribed within human bodies? In this book, Paul Connerton discusses social and cultural memory by looking at the role of mourning in the production of histories and the reticence of silence across many different cultures. In particular he looks at how memory is conveyed in gesture, bodily posture, speech and the senses – and ... Read more

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  • Imagining the Supernatural North

    Edited by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough, Danielle Marie Cudmore, Stefan Donecker ...
    “Turning to face north, face the north, we enter our own unconscious. Always, in retrospect, the journey north has the quality of dream.” Margaret Atwood, “True North” In this interdisciplinary collection, sixteen scholars from twelve countries explore the notion of the North as a realm of the supernatural. This region has long been associated with sorcerous inhabitants, mythical tribes, ... Read more

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  • Apples and Oranges

    Explorations In, On, and With Comparison

    by Bruce Lincoln ...
    Comparison is an indispensable intellectual operation that plays a crucial role in the formation of knowledge. Yet comparison often leads us to forego attention to nuance, detail, and context, perhaps leaving us bereft of an ethical obligation to take things correspondingly as they are. Examining the practice of comparison across the study of history, language, religion, and culture, distinguished ... Read more

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