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Saints, Heroes, Myths, and Rites: Classical Durkheimian Studies of Religion and Society
"Classical Durkheimian Studies of Myth and the Sacred" presents English translations of several important essays, some never before translated, by members of the famous Ann e sociologique group around Emile Durkheim. These works by Marcel Mauss, Henri Hubert, and Robert Hertz are key contributions to today 's growing interest in and reinterpretation of Durkheimia...more
Hardcover, 240 pages
Published
August 28th 2009
by Paradigm Publishers
(first published August 2009)
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Mauss was born in Épinal, Vosges to a Jewish family, and studied philosophy at Bordeaux, where his uncle Émile Durkheim was teaching at the time and agregated in 1893. Instead of taking the usual route of teaching at a lycée, however, Mauss moved to Paris and took up the study of comparative religion and the Sanskrit language. His first publication in 1896 marked the beginning of a prolific career...more
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