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Discourse and the construction of society : comparative studies of myth, ritual, and classification /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lincoln, Bruce
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Edition:Second Edition.
Subjects:
Social structure.
Myth.
Ritual.
Classification.
Symbolism.
Social change.
Table of Contents:
  • Myth, sentiment, and the construction of social forms
  • The politics of myth
  • Competing uses of the future in the present
  • Ritual, rebellion, resistance : rethinking the Swazi Ncwala
  • Banquets and brawls : aspects of ceremonial meals
  • Festivals and massacres : reflections on St. Bartholomew's Day
  • Revolutionary exhumations in Spain
  • The tyranny of taxonomy
  • The dialectics of symbolic inversion
  • The uses of anomaly
  • The mythic sisterhood of Europe and Asia
  • "We are all related" : the limits of inclusion at a Lakota sun dance
  • Food, filth, and religious community.