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

Lincoln, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195079094 ISBN 13: 9780195079098

Verlag: OUP USA, 1993

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Book by Lincoln Bruce

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Fun ... and intellectually bracing ... Lincoln powerfully illuminates the symbolic terrain wherever he alights, and he alights in an astonishing variety of settings. (James C. Scott, Yale University)

Lincoln has a delicately nuanced control of the theoretical literature and a command of a stunning range of multi-cultural data ... the book will be a significant contribution to many fields - comparative religion, history of religions, the study of the social construction of reality, anthropology, sociology, and myth criticism, to name but a few ... The approach is more than interdisciplinary; it is what one might call 'supra-disciplinary", in that it has comfortably and easily drawn on many approaches to define its own coherent integrated set of questions. (Marilyn Waldman, Ohio State University)

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This is a paperback reprint of a book published in 1989. 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.

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• Verlag: OUP USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0195079094
• ISBN 13: 9780195079098
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248