Violent Origins: Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation
Walter Burkert; Rene Girard; Jonathan Z. Smith; Edited by Robert G. Hamerton-Kelly
Language: English
Published by Stanford University Press, 1987
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- Title
- Violent Origins: Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation
- Author
- Walter Burkert; Rene Girard; Jonathan Z. Smith; Edited by Robert G. Hamerton-Kelly
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Publication year
- 1987
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0804713707
- ISBN 13
- 9780804713702
- Item weight
- 1.001 pounds
- Dimensions
- 5.81 inches width by 8.83 inches height by 0.95 inches depth
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Girard and Burkert present different versions of the same conviction: that a single theory can account for ritual and its social function, a theory that posits original acts of group violence. Smith sharply questions both the possibility and the utility of such a general theory. Among the highlights of this stimulating interchange of ideas is a searching criticism of Girard's theory of generative scapegoating, which he answers with clarity and conviction, and a challenging of Burkert's theory of the origin of sacrifice in the hunt by Smith's argument, posed as a jeu d'esprit, that sacrifice originates with the domestication of animals.
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