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In this provocative new study the distinguished anthropologist Maurice Bloch argues for a return to a naturalist approach to social and cultural anthropology, proposing that subjects such as the self, kinship, memory and globalisation benefit from being simultaneously approached with the tools of social and cognitive science.
In this book Maurice Bloch synthesises a radical theory of religion. Rituals inmany societies deny the transience of life and of human institutions. Bloch argues that they enact this denial by symbolically sacrificing the participants themselves, so allowing them to participate in the immortality of a transcendent entity.
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