Death and the right hand

Author(s)

    • Hertz, Robert

Bibliographic Information

Death and the right hand

Robert Hertz ; translated by Rodney Needham and Claudia Needham

(Routledge library editions, . Anthropology and ethnography ; 45 . Religion, rites & ceremonies ; 4)

Routledge, 2009

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Note

This translation originally published: London: Cohen & West, 1960

Translated from the French

Transfessed to digital printing 2009

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

ISBN 9780415330244

Description

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.

Table of Contents

A Contribution to the Study of the Collective Representation of Death 1. The Intermediary Period 2. The Final Ceremony 3. Conclusion The Pre-eminence of the Right Hand: A Study in Religious Polarity 1. Organic Asymmetry 2. Religious Polarity 3. The Characteristics of Right and Left 4. The Functions of the Two Hands 5. Conclusion
Volume

ISBN 9780415489072

Description

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.

Table of Contents

A Contribution to the Study of the Collective Representation of Death 1. The Intermediary Period 2. The Final Ceremony 3. Conclusion The Pre-eminence of the Right Hand: A Study in Religious Polarity 1. Organic Asymmetry 2. Religious Polarity 3. The Characteristics of Right and Left 4. The Functions of the Two Hands 5. Conclusion

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Details

  • NCID
    BB10572293
  • ISBN
    • 0415330246
    • 9780415330244
    • 0415489075
    • 9780415489072
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    fre
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    174 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
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