The sacred monstrous : a reflection on violence in human communities /
Hamblet, Wendy C.,1949-
Lanham, Md. ; Oxford : Lexington Books,
c2004.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-108) and index.
Ritual and mythical beginnings -- Ritual in-form-ations : the anthropologists' theories -- Resonances in ritual theory -- Mythical traces of the legacy of violence under the shadow of the "fall" -- Home-craft in the history of philosophy : "innocent egoist and alone" -- The ambiguities of home : a phenomenology of identity-construction -- Violence as community : the suffocating embrace of the home -- Superstructures of identity -- In the wake of violent rituals.
Violence