3. Henri Hubert, Marcel Mauss and Sacrifice
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Dr Nick Allen talks to Tim Howles about his chapter 'Using Hubert and Mauss to think about Sacrifice' In this interview, Dr Nick Allen (formerly Reader in the Social Anthropology of South Asia, University of Oxford) focuses on a short essay written in 1899 by two French scholars, Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss, representing the thinking of the emerging field of Durkheimian sociologie in the latter years of the nineteenth-century. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
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