Seven Day Circle The History and Meaning of the Week

Name: Seven Day Circle The History and Meaning of the Week
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ISBN: 9780226981659

ISBN-10: 0226981657

ISBN-13: 9780226981659

Edition: 1989 (Reprint)

Authors: Eviatar Zerubavel

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"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.'

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/15/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 220
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.87" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



List of Figures


Acknowledgments


Introduction: ""Daddy, What's Thursday?""



The Origins of the Seven-Day Week



The Seven-Day Wars



Cultural Variations on a Theme



The Harmonics of Timekeeping



Living with the Week



Experiencing the Week



Culture, Not Nature


Notes


Bibliography


Author Index


Subject Index