Giving Life, Giving Death: Psychoanalysis, Anthropology, Philosophy - Brossura

Libro 32 di 54: Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture

Scubla, Lucien

 
9781611862089: Giving Life, Giving Death: Psychoanalysis, Anthropology, Philosophy
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ISBN 10: 1611862086 ISBN 13: 9781611862089
Casa editrice: Michigan State Univ Pr, 2016

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Although women alone have the ability to bring children into the world, modern Western thought tends to discount this female prerogative. In Giving Life, Giving Death, Lucien Scubla argues that structural anthropology sees women as objects of exchange that facilitate alliance-building rather than as vectors of continuity between generations. Examining the work of Lévi-Strauss, Freud, and Girard, as well as ethnographic and clinical data, Giving Life, Giving Death seeks to explain why, in constructing their master theories, our greatest thinkers have consistently marginalized the cultural and biological fact of maternity. In the spirit of Freud’s Totem and Taboo, Scubla constructs an anthropology that posits a common source for family and religion. His wide-ranging study explores how rituals unite violence and the sacred and intertwine the giving of death and the giving of life.
 

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Informazioni sull?autore

Lucien Scubla is a researcher at the Institut Marcel Mauss of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is the author of a study on Claude Lévi-Strauss and wrote the preface for the French translation of Social Origins, a posthumous work by A. M. Hocart.
 

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Editore
Michigan State Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2016
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1611862086
ISBN 13 
9781611862089
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
367
Contatto del produttore
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