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Death and the right hand

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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.

180 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1917

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September 30, 2025
“La muerte no es para la conciencia social más que un caso particular de un fenómeno general”. Vivir entre los muertos, convivir con los vivos.
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March 2, 2023
Estos son ensayos en antropología, son de la época cuando todavía no se enfrascaban en un lenguaje académico. La mano derecha me gustó mucho, es sobre el sentido religioso que se le ha asignado a esta mano (es decir, la justificación social de un rasgo meramente biológico). Bueno, y a los zurdos como siempre, se nos manda a la categoría de lo profano.
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December 18, 2020
Ambos temas: La perennidad después de la muerte y la prominencia de la mano derecha han sido muy agradables de leer. Algunas partes eran muy enrevesadas, pero los ejemplos ayudaban mucho; me ha gustado.
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472 reviews45 followers
December 20, 2023
Not as genius as I would imagine (as the tales go...), nonetheless it's a first-rate study that sees a general sociological truth in complex materials.
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