Maurice Bloch
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Circumcision is, for the Madagascans, a rite which shifts boys from mothers to men by sustaining an ideology that women, sex, birth, and nature can be violently conquered by men.
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The Future is that which can bring everything or nothing, heaven or hell, life or death. It is full of salvation, but also full of danger.
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Rebounding violence is a universal feature of a rather conservative ritual structure characterized by the enacting of the conquest of everyday vitality by transcendental, supernatural powers.
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Rebounding violence is the ritual process whereby native vitality is replaced by a conquered, external, consumed vitality.
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Rebounding violence is a term used to refer to the transformation of the material processes of life into the irreducible structures of religious phenomena.
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Rebounding violence is so called because the transformation of 'life' into 'religious structures' is marked by (a) a rebounding dialectical process (b) some kind of violence