1st Edition
The Dark Side of Humanity The Work of Robert Hertz and its Legacy
By Robert Parkin
Copyright 1996
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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Robert Parkin's book gives a reading of each of these texts before going on to show their subsequent influence on anthropologists in particular. Hertz's activities as reviewer and phamphleteer are also covered. The introductory biographical chapter drawing on Hertz's surviving papers in the Collège de France, shows his own ambivalence towards his academic career and it also attempts to... Read more
Chapter 1 Life and Career; Chapter 2 The Durkheimian Background to Hertz's Work; Chapter 3 Hertz as Reviewer and Pamphleteer; Chapter 4 Right and Left; Chapter 5 Death and the Analysis of Ritual; Chapter 6 Sin and Expiation; Chapter 7 St Besse and the Analysis of Myth; Chapter 8 Conclusion;
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Parkin, Robert
