Vengeance in Reverse: The Tangled Loops of Violence, Myth, and Madness (Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture) - Softcover

Buch 35 von 54: Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture

Anspach, Mark R.

 
9781611862386: Vengeance in Reverse: The Tangled Loops of Violence, Myth, and Madness (Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1611862388 ISBN 13: 9781611862386
Verlag: MICHIGAN ST UNIV PR, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

How do humans stop fighting? Where do the gods of myth come from? What does it mean to go mad? Mark R. Anspach tackles these and other conundrums as he draws on ethnography, literature, psychotherapy, and the theory of René Girard to explore some of the fundamental mechanisms of human interaction. Likening gift exchange to vengeance in reverse, the first part of the book outlines a fresh approach to reciprocity, while the second part traces the emergence of transcendence in collective myths and individual delusions. From the peacemaking rituals of prestate societies to the paradoxical structure of consciousness, Anspach takes the reader on an intellectual journey that begins with the problem of how to deceive violence and ends with the riddle of how one can deceive oneself.
 
 

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Mark R. Anspach is an American anthropologist and social theorist whose writings have appeared in nine languages. He is affiliated with the LIAS research team at the Institut Marcel Mauss, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
 

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Verlag
MICHIGAN ST UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1611862388
ISBN 13 
9781611862386
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
136
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