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Note 137 — Chapter II · TABOOED DAYS AFTER A DEATH AND ON RELATED OCCASIONS

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On the primitive ideas of death see particularly R. Hertz, “Contribution à une étude sur la représentation collective de la morte,” L’année sociologique, 1905-1906, x, 48-137; E. S. Hartland, “Death and Disposal of the Dead (Introductory),” Hastings’s Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, iv, 411-444; W. H. R. Rivers, “The Primitive Conception of Death,” Hibbert Journal, 1912, x, 393-407; Sir J. G. Frazer, The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, London, 1913, i, 31-58; A. van Gennep, Les rites de passage, Paris, 1909, pp. 209-236; L. Lévy-Bruhl, Les fonctions mentales dans les sociétés inférieures, Paris, 1910, pp. 321-330, 352-396. For a useful collection of ethnographic evidence see E. Samter, Geburt, Hochzeit, und Tod, Leipzig, 1911.

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