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The Seven Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the Week
"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
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Publish Date: Mar 15th, 1989
- Pages: 220
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.01in - 0.59in - 0.70lb
- EAN: 9780226981659
- Categories: • General• Time
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About the Author
Zerubavel, Eviatar: - Eviatar Zerubavel is a professor of sociology at Rutgers University. He is the author of seven other books, including Social Mindscapes: An Invitation to Cognitive Sociology, The Seven-Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the Week, and The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life.
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What people are saying
The Ezra Klein Show
2 years
"“The Seven Day Circle” is the definitive history of the week ... Zerubavel rigorously lays it out for you the history of these temporal structures that make up a week and how they affect you."
– Judith Shulevitz is a contributing writer at The Atlantic.
What people are saying
The Ezra Klein Show
2 years
"“The Seven Day Circle” is the definitive history of the week ... Zerubavel rigorously lays it out for you the history of these temporal structures that make up a week and how they affect you."
– Judith Shulevitz is a contributing writer at The Atlantic.