Author: Jay, Nancy
Title: Throughout Your Generations Forever: Sacrifice, Religion, and Paternity
Description: Chicago, University of Chicago Press, (1992). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xxvii,194 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Social-Scientific Interpretation of Ritual; The Logic of Sacrifice; Sacrifice & Deceit; Creating Descent Through Fathers & Sons; Ashanti Sacrifice; Hawaiian Sacrifice; Sacrifice, Descent & the Patriarchs;Sacrifice & Social Structure in Christianity; Theories of Sacrifice; Conclusion; Appendix: Sacrificial Calendars.

Keywords: Sociology of Religion, Anthropology, Religious Sacrifice, Paternity, , , , ,