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This volume provides a collection of some of Maurice Bloch's most important work, including influential essays on power, hierarchy, death and fertility.

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Fascinating and deep exploration into the nature of the social. How humans relate to each other psychologically, symbolically and culturally.

Fascinating and deep exploration into the nature of the social. How humans relate to each other psychologically, symbolically and culturally.

One of the world's most distinguished anthropologists proposes that cognitive science enriches, rather than threatens, the work of social scientists.

One of the world's most distinguished anthropologists proposes that cognitive science enriches, rather than threatens, the work of social scientists.

This book brings together recent work by Maurice Bloch which explores the highly controversial territory between the cognitive and social sciences.

These essays by one of anthropology's most original theorists consider such fundamental questions as: Is cognition language-based? How reliable a guide to memory are people's narratives about themselv

This book brings together recent work by Maurice Bloch which explores thehighly controversial territory between the cognitive and social sciences. The essays are of broad, theoretical interest and aim to combine naturalistic approaches to cognition with a recognition and respect for the cultural and historical specificity of ethnography. All the essays illustrate Bloch's characteristic approach to the relation between anthropology and cognitiv...

This volume deals with the way in which money is symbolically represented in a range of different cultures, from South and South-east Asia, Africa and South America. It is also concerned with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges as against exchanges of other kinds. The essays cast radical doubt on many Western assumptions about money: that it is the acid which corrodes community, depersonalises human relationships, and red...

En un vasto recorrido por el tiempo y el espacio, los diez ensayos de este volumen dan cuenta de la difusión de la cultura escrita en distintas sociedades. ¿Qué papel desempeña un determinado sistema de escritura en la difusión de la cultura? Jack Goody responde ampliamente a esta pregunta, demostrando aquí en el ejemplo del alfabeto griego y su posterior desarrollo la incidencia de la escritura alfabética en el singular desarrollo de la cultu...

In this book Maurice Bloch synthesises a radical theory of religion.

This book provides a detailed description and analysis of the Merina circumcision ritual today, offer an account of its history, and discusses the significance of his analysis for anthropological theories of ritual in general.

In this book Maurice Bloch synthesises a radical theory of religion.