What is achieved through sacrifice?
Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Pedagogy - Science, Theory, Anthropology, grade: 67%, University of Cambridge, language: English, abstract: Sacrifice can be conceptualised in various forms. Traditionally, the four-step-scheme (presentation, consecration, invocation, immolation) of the ritual as described by Evans-Pritchard (1956) reduces it to as Gibson (1986: 182) describes a gift to spiritual beings in which the life of an animal is substituted for the life of a human. Originating in Hubert's and Mauss' account (1964), what can be called the 'communication theory of sacrifice' is illustrated by Evans-Pritchard's study of Nuer religi…
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- ISBN: 978-3-656-37442-8
- EAN: 9783656374428
- Produktnummer: 24007515
- Verlag: Grin Verlag
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 5 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 362 KB
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