Death and the right hand
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 body of ethnographic facts from all over the world: in effect social anthropology.
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- Full title :Death and the right hand / Robert Hertz ; translated by Rodney and Claudia Needham ; with an introduction by E.E. Evans-Pritchard.
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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 body of ethnographic facts from all over the world: in effect social anthropology.
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- Publication Date:2004.
- Edition:Revised edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:England
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2004.
Notes
Reprint. originally published in 1960.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (174 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781136539138, 1136539131
- oclc:ocn860982823
- LC Classification:GR71
- Dewey Decimal:393
Table of Contents
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; TRANSLATOR'S NOTE; TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; A CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF THE COLLECTIVE REPRESENTATION OF DEATH; 1. THE INTERMEDIARY PERIOD; (a) The body: provisional burial; (b) The soul: its temporary stay on earth; (c) The living: mourning; 2. THE FINAL CEREMONY; (a) The final burial; (b) The admittance of the soul to the land of the dead; (c) The liberation of the living; 3. CONCLUSION; THE PRE-EMINENCE OF THE RIGHT HAND: A STUDY IN RELIGIOUS POLARITY; 1. ORGANIC ASYMMETRY.
2. religious polarity3. the characteristics of right and left; 4. the functions of the two hands; 5. conclusion; notes; references.
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