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Essai sur la nature et la fonction du sacrifice

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    …is to be found in Essai sur la nature et le fonction du sacrifice (1899; Sacrifice: Its Nature and Functions), by the French sociologists Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss, who differentiated between sacrifice and rituals of oblation, offering, and consecration. This does not mean that sacrificial rituals do not at…

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