Discourse And the Construction of Society: Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, And Classification - Couverture rigide

Lincoln, Bruce

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195057570 ISBN 13 : 9780195057577

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1989

Synopsis

Book by Lincoln Bruce

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

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)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0195057570
• ISBN 13: 9780195057577
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240