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Product Description: Más que una morfología de lo sagrado, el presente estudio intenta exponer su sintaxis, abordando las relaciones generales de lo sagrado con lo profano, desentrañando su ambigüedad polar. Esboza una teoría de las prohibiciones y el respeto que dimana de las leyes santas y de los actos sacrílegos...read more

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9789681681814 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 2006, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Más que una morfología de lo sagrado, el presente estudio intenta exponer su sintaxis, abordando las relaciones generales de lo sagrado con lo profano, desentrañando su ambigüedad polar.
9789681673437 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 2005, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Las características, categorías, y significaciones de lo sagrado son el objeto de estudio de este clásico de la sociología, publicado por vez primera en el FCE en 1942.

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Product Description: The Edge of Surrealism is an essential introduction to the writing of French social theorist Roger Caillois. Caillois was part of the Surrealist avant-garde and in the 1930s founded the College of Sociology with Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris...read more

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9780822330561 | Duke Univ Pr, May 1, 2003, cover price $94.95 | About this edition: The Edge of Surrealism is an essential introduction to the writing of French social theorist Roger Caillois.

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Product Description: Demonstrates how humanity's ambiguous attitude toward the sacred influences behaviour and culture. Drawing on a diverse array of ethnographic contexts, including the sexual rituals of Ba-Thong of South Africa and evidence drawn from aboriginal Australian, Eskimo, the author analyzes the role of the forbidden in the social cohesion of the group...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780313221965 | Greenwood Pub Group, April 1, 1980, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Throughout the world, people believe that much of what they do is accidental, ordinary, and inconsequential, while other acts can bring on divine retribution or earn eternal grace.

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9780252070341 | Reprint edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, September 1, 2001), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Demonstrates how humanity's ambiguous attitude toward the sacred influences behaviour and culture.

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9789702402091 | Patria Editorial, August 1, 2001, cover price $11.95

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Product Description: Roger Caillois examina en este libro las múltiples formas de manifestación y de creación de la imaginación mítica; en estas páginas están al mismo tiempo las habilidades del poeta y las destrezas del investigador riguroso.

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9789681640217 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 1998, cover price $9.49 | About this edition: Roger Caillois examina en este libro las múltiples formas de manifestación y de creación de la imaginación mítica; en estas páginas están al mismo tiempo las habilidades del poeta y las destrezas del investigador riguroso.

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Product Description: Introducción a un posible modelo sociológico del juego en el que Caillois revisa metódicamente aquellas particularidades que hacen de cada juego un entrenamiento para disciplinar la mente y el cuerpo con miras a una armonía total.

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9789681624811 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 1994, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Introducción a un posible modelo sociológico del juego en el que Caillois revisa metódicamente aquellas particularidades que hacen de cada juego un entrenamiento para disciplinar la mente y el cuerpo con miras a una armonía total.

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Product Description: Colección de ensayos de Caillois alrededor del psicoanálisis, el marxismo y, en el texto más extenso, la novela policiaca y sus consecuencias sociales y literarias.

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9789681632243 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 1993, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Colección de ensayos de Caillois alrededor del psicoanálisis, el marxismo y, en el texto más extenso, la novela policiaca y sus consecuencias sociales y literarias.

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Product Description: Book by Caillois, Roger

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9780932499400 | Lapis Pr, September 1, 1990, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Book by Caillois, Roger

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Product Description: "This book is a fascinating meditation on the human imagination comtemplating the interior of stones."

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9780813910505 | Univ of Virginia Pr, August 1, 1985, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: "This book is a fascinating meditation on the human imagination comtemplating the interior of stones.

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9780910913003 | Laughing Buddha Pr, December 1, 1984, cover price $7.50

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According to Roger Caillois, play is an occasion of pure waste. In spite of this - or because of it - play constitutes an essential element of human social and spiritual development. In this study, the author defines play as a free and voluntary activity that occurs in a pure space, isolated and protected from the rest of life.

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9780029052006 | Free Pr, December 1, 1961, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: According to Roger Caillois, play is an occasion of pure waste.

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9780252070334 | Reprint edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, September 1, 2001), cover price $25.00

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