The Seven Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the Week - Brossura

Zerubavel, Eviatar

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ISBN 10: 0226981657 ISBN 13: 9780226981659

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 1989

Riassunto

"Days, months, and years were given to us by nature, but we invented the week for ourselves. There is nothing inevitable about a seven-day cycle, or about any other kind of week; it represents an arbitrary rhythm imposed on our activities, unrelated to anything in the natural order. But where the week exists—and there have been many cultures where it doesn't—it is so deeply embedded in our experience that we hardly ever question its rightness, or think of it as an artificial convention; for most of us it is a matter of 'second nature.'

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L'autore:

Eviatar Zerubavel is professor of sociology at Rutgers University. His books includeHidden Rhythms: Schedules and Calendars in Social Life and Patterns of Time in Hospital Life: A Sociological Perspective.

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Book by Zerubavel Eviatar

Su questa edizione

• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0226981657
• ISBN 13: 9780226981659
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 220