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Maurice Bloch
Researcher at London School of Economics and Political Science
Publications - 103
Citations - 7736
Maurice Bloch is an academic researcher from London School of Economics and Political Science. The author has contributed to research in topics: Kinship & Ideology. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 103 publications receiving 7458 citations.
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Ritual, History and Power: Selected Papers in Anthropology
TL;DR: A collection of some of Maurice Bloch's most important work, including influential essays on power, hierarchy, death and fertility, can be found in this paper, where the authors provide a good introduction.
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Why Religion Is Nothing Special but Is Central
TL;DR: It is proposed that explaining religion in evolutionary terms is a misleading enterprise because religion is an indissoluble part of a unique aspect of human social organization and the neurological basis for this type of social, which includes religion, will depend on the development of imagination.
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From Blessing to Violence: History and Ideology in the Circumcision Ritual of the Merina
TL;DR: In this article, a preliminary analysis of a circumcision ritual is presented, together with a history of the circumcision in history and a theory of the transformation of ideology, which is based on the theory of transformation.