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9780226981659

The Seven Day Circle

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  • ISBN13:

    9780226981659

  • ISBN10:

    0226981657

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1989-03-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

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Summary

"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 existsand there have been many cultures where it doesn'tit 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.'

Author Biography

Eviatar Zerubavel is professor of sociology at Rutgers University. His books include Hidden Rhythms: Schedules and Calendars in Social Life and Patterns of Time in Hospital Life: A Sociological Perspective.


Table of Contents

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
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