Sacrifice: Its Nature and Functions

Sacrifice: Its Nature and Functions

by Marcel Mauss, Henri Hubert

166 pages· 1981· ISBN 9780226356792
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A synthesis of and elaboration on various anthropological perspectives of religious sacrifice. Mauss, as the sort of scion of classical anthropology, writes well with Hubert, but most of this book could have just been left out and the conclusion could've been published alone as an essay.

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