For the social anthropologist, the work of Robert Hertz has assumed
more importance than that of any other scholar attached to the
school of EMile Durkheim, excluding only Marcel Mauss and Durkheim
himself. This is due mainly to the influence of his two key texts
concerning ritual and symbolism, that on the death of 1907 and that
on right and left hands of 1909. His other works are now also
becoming better known, namely his recently translated work on sin
and his ethnographic study of the cult of St Besse, in northern
Italy. This work provides a reading of each of these texts before
going on to show their subsequent influence on anthropologists in
particular. Parkin's activities as reviewer and pamphleteer are
also covered. The introductory biographical chapter, drawing on
Hertz's surviving papers in the College de France, shows his own
ambivalence towards his academic career and it also attempts to
clarify the circumstances leading up to his apparently gratuitous
death in the First World War. Two further chapters attempt to
situate his work in the broader context of Durkheimian sociology.
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