How Things Count as the Same: Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor

ISBN-13: 9780190888718 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 240 str.

Adam B. Seligman; Robert P. Weller

Opis

What counts as the same? This simple question forms the core of how we constitute ourselves as groups and as individuals. This book suggests that different ways of constructing sameness foster different group dynamics and different benefits and risks for the creation of plural societies.

Recenzje

...absorbing book...

O autorze

Adam B. Seligman is Professor of Religion at Boston University. He is the co-author of Rethinking Pluralism (2012) and Ritual and Its Consequences (2008). Robert P. Weller is Professor of Anthropology at Boston University. He is the co-author of Rethinking Pluralism (2012) and Ritual and Its Consequences (2008).