Ertz, R.

Japanese: エルツ,R. - えるつ
Ertz, R.

...The example of multiple burials mentioned above shows this structure most clearly. In his analysis of multiple burials by the indigenous Dayak people of Borneo, French sociologist Hertz R. Hertz (1882-1915) revealed that the multiple burials have a staged structure in which the body and soul of the dead and the living move from stability to instability and then back to a certain stability. According to him, in these societies death is not an instantaneous event, but a continuous process that is completed only through a series of rituals. ...

From [Right and Left]

…The dominance of right-handedness in humans is not due to physiological constraints or functional reasons, but rather to the fluid left-right differentiation that has been fixed by social regulations in order for members of society to share the symbolic and spatial differences in meaning between left and right. French sociologist Robert Hertz argues that the social regulation of right-handedness originates from religious dualism (polarity) between the sacred and the profane, or pure and impure. Indeed, there are many religious cultures that value the opposition between right and left, with the right being pure/good and the left being impure/evil. …

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Japanese:

…この構造を最も鮮明に表しているのは上述した複葬の例である。フランスの社会学者エルツR.Hertz(1882‐1915)は,ボルネオの原住民ダヤク諸族の複葬の分析において,これが死者の肉体と霊魂および生者という三者のそれぞれが安定から不安定へ,そしてそこから再びある種の安定へと移行するという段階的な構造をもっていることを明らかにした。彼によれば,これらの社会において死は瞬間的なできごとではなく,一連の儀礼を通してはじめて完成される持続的な過程なのである。…

【右と左】より

…人間における右利き優越は,生理的制約や機能的理由によるというより,流動性のある左右分化を,象徴空間的な左右の意味の違いを社会成員が共有するために,社会的規制によって固定化させたものといえよう。 フランスの社会学者エルツRobert Hertzは,右利き優越の社会的規制を聖と俗あるいは浄と穢(けがれ)という宗教的な二元論(両極性)に由来すると説いた。確かに,右と左の対立を,右は浄・善であり左は穢・悪であると価値づける宗教文化は多い。…

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