

Maurice Bloch has for many years been developing an original and influential theory of ritual. In this book he synthesises a radical theory of religion. Rituals in a great many societies deny the transience of life and of human institutions. Bloch argues that they enact this...

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Maurice Bloch, an ethnologist and professor at the University of Cambridge and at the Ecole des hautes tudes en sciences sociales, is well-known for his theory on rituals. He shows that human societies are worried about their permanence. However, this worry is incompatible with...