Discourse and the Construction of Society: Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification - Softcover

Lincoln, Bruce

 
9780195079098: Discourse and the Construction of Society: Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0195079094 ISBN 13: 9780195079098
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

In this bold theoretical work, Bruce Lincoln explores the ways in which myth, ritual, and classification hold human societies together--and how, in times of crisis, they can be used to take a society apart and reconstruct it. Without overlooking the role of coercive force in the maintenance (or overthrow) of social structures, Lincoln argues his thesis with compelling illustrations drawn from such diverse areas as Platonic philosophy, the Upanishads of India, ancient Celtic banquets, professional wrestling, and the Spanish Civil War. This wide-ranging interdisciplinary study--which draws on works in history, semiotics, anthropology, sociology, classics, and indology--offers challenging new insights into the complex dynamics of social cohesion and change.

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Bruce Lincoln is Caroline E. Haskell Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School, the University of Chicago. He has published four other books, including Priests, Warriors, and Cattle: A Study in the Ecology of Religions, which won the American Council of Learned Societies Prize as Best New Book in History of Religions in 1981.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1993
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0195079094
ISBN 13 
9780195079098
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252
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