by Henri Hubert, Marcel Mauss · University of Chicago Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9780710063489
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«Sacrifice: Its Nature and Function», by Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss, is the sociology and anthropology essay in hardback from University of Chicago Press.
The essay studies sacrifice as a social and religious institution across different cultures. Hubert and Mauss analyse the structure of the rite and its function: establishing communication between the sacred and the profane. The victim acts as mediator and the act transforms both the offered object and the participant.
The original text appeared in French in 1899; this English edition, translated by W.D. Halls, includes a foreword by E.E. Evans-Pritchard.
For students and researchers of anthropology, sociology, history and religion interested in the study of sacrifice as a social phenomenon.
