ISBN:
9781912385287
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 224 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kohl, Karl-Heinz, 1948 - Powerful things
DDC:
202.109
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Heiliger Gegenstand
;
Kulturvergleich
;
Ethnologie
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
This book offers nothing less than a comprehensive theory of the sacred object from the viewpoint of anthropology and the history of religion. Taking the riddle of fetishism as its starting point, it shows how people of all cultures ascribe immeasurable value to things, even to the point of making their own destiny dependent on them.
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