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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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From Blessing to Violence: History and Ideology in the Circumcision Ritual of the Merina of Madagascar
Raymond K. Kent,Maurice Bloch +1 more
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Zafimaniry: An Understanding of What Is Passed on from Parents to Children: A Cross-Cultural Investigation
TL;DR: This paper found that children from a remote Zafimaniry village in eastern Madagascar tended to judge that an adopted boy would resemble his adoptive rather than his birth parents on virtually all traits, including bodily traits.
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Commensality and poisoning
TL;DR: In all societies, sharing food is a way of establishing closeness, while, conversely, the refusal to share is one of the clearest marks of distance and enmity.
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Compadrazgo, Baptism and the Symbolism of a Second Birth
Maurice Bloch,S. Guggenheim +1 more
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The causal cognition of wrong doing: incest, intentionality, and morality
Rita Astuti,Maurice Bloch +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that, when people contemplate incest and its consequences, they simultaneously consider two quite different issues: the issue of intentionality and blame, and the much more troubling and dumbfounding issue of what society would be like if incest were to be permitted.