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

Lincoln, Bruce

 
9780195079098: Discourse and the Construction of Society: Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author


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.

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