Preface = ⅸGeneral Introduction = 11 EDWARD BURNETT TYLOR From Primitive Culture : Researches in the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Arts, and Custom = 122 HERBERT SPENCER From The Principles of Sociology = 393 WILLIAM ROBERTSON SMITH From The Religion of the Semites : The Fundamental Institutions = 534 JAMES G. FRAZER From The Golden Bough : A Study in Magic and Religion = 765 HENRI HUBERT and MARCEL MAUSS From Sacrifice : Its Nature and Function = 886 EDWARD A. WESTERMARCK From The Origin Development of the Moral Ideas = 1007 EMILE DURKHEIM From The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life = 1268 SIGMUND FREUD From Totem and Taboo : Some Points of Agreement between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics = 1399 GERARDUS VAN DER LEEUW From Religion in Essence and Manifestation : A Study in Phenomenology = 15010 GEORGES BATAILLE From The Accursed Share : An Essay on General Economy = 16211 ADOLF E. JENSEN From Myth and Cult among Primitive Peoples = 17512 EDWARD E. EVANS_PRITCHARD "The Meaning of Sacrifice among the Nuer" = 18913 WALTER BURKERT From Homo Necans : The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth = 21014 REN$$\acute E$$ GIRARD From Violence and the Sacred = 23915 JAN VAN BAAL "Offering, Sacrifice and Gift" = 27616 VICTOR TURNER From "Sacrifice as Quintessential Process : Prophylaxis or Abandonment?" = 29217 LUC DE HEUSCH From Sacrifice in Africa : A Structuralist Approach = 30118 VALERIO VALERI From Kingship and Sacrifice : Ritual and Society in Ancient Hawaii = 31519 JONATHAN Z. SMITH "The Domestication of Sacrifice" = 32520 ROBERT J. DALY "The Power of Sacrifice in Ancient Judaism and Christianity" = 34221 BRUCE LINCOLN "Debreasting, Disarming, Beheading : Some Sacrificial Practices of the Scyths and Amazons" = 35722 NANCY JAY From Throughout Your Generations Forever : Sacrifice, Religion, and Paternity = 37023 WILLIAM BEERS From Women and Sacrifice : Male Narcissism and the Psychology of Religion = 38424 MAURICE BLOCH From Prey into Hunter : The Politics of Religious Experience = 39525 JON D. LEVENSON From The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son : The Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity = 421Postscript = 449Selected Bibliography on Sacrifice = 454Index = 461
