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

Lincoln, Bruce

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ISBN 10: 0195079094 ISBN 13: 9780195079098

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 1993

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.

Recensione:

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)

L'autore:

Bruce Lincoln is Caroline E. Haskell Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School, the University of Chicago. He has published four other books, including Priests, Warriors, and Cattle: A Study in the Ecology of Religions, which won the American Council of Learned Societies Prize as Best New Book in History of Religions in 1981.