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I read Bruce Lincoln's Discourse and the Construction of Society with pleasure and profit; he has the art of stating complicated ideas plainly without simplifying them, and the gift for finding telling examples; together these two qualities make his book engaging-and also useful.

I read Bruce Lincoln's Discourse and the Construction of Society with pleasure and profit; he has the art of stating complicated ideas plainly without simplifying them, and the gift for finding telling examples; together these two qualities make his book engaging-and also useful. It is a kind of kit for thinking about society. -James Redfield, University of Chicago. Offers a perspective on how different processes of orally delivered discourse can be used for the creation, maintenance, or disintegration of society

In this bold theoretical work, Bruce Lincoln explores the ways in which myth, ritual, and classification hold human societies together-and how, in times of crisis, they can be used to take a society apart and reconstruct it. Without overlooking the role of coercive force in the maintenance (o. .

In this bold theoretical work, Bruce Lincoln explores the ways in which myth, ritual, and classification hold human societies together-and how, in times of crisis, they can be used to take a society apart and reconstruct it. Without overlooking the role of coercive force in the maintenance (or overthrow) of social structures, Lincoln argues his thesis with compelling In this bold theoretical work, Bruce Lincoln explores the ways in which myth, ritual, and classification hold human societies together-and how, in times of crisis, they can be used to take a society apart and reconstruct it. Without overlooking the role of coercive force in the maintenance (or overthrow) of social structures, Lincoln argues his thesis with compelling illustrations drawn from such diverse areas as Platonic philosophy, the Upanishads of India, ancient Celtic banquets, professional wrestling, and the Spanish Civil War. Without overlooking the role of coercive force in the maintenance (or overthrow) of social structures, Lincoln argues his thesis with compelling illustrations drawn from such diverse areas as Platonic philosophy, the Upanishads of India, African rituals of kingship, ancient Celtic banquets, English gentlemen's clubs, the Iranian Revolution, the St. Bartholomew's.

In this bold theoretical work, Bruce Lincoln explores the ways in which myth, ritual, and classification hold human societies together-and how, in times of crisis, they can be.Myth Sentiment and the Construction of Social Forms. 15. The Politics of Myth.

In this bold theoretical work, Bruce Lincoln explores the ways in which myth, ritual, and classification hold human societies together-and how, in times of crisis, they can be used to take a society apart and reconstruct i.

This wide-ranging interdisciplinary study-which draws on works in history, semiotics, anthropology, sociology, classics, and indology-offers challenging new insights into the complex dynamics of social cohesion and change

This wide-ranging interdisciplinary study-which draws on works in history, semiotics, anthropology, sociology, classics, and indology-offers challenging new insights into the complex dynamics of social cohesion and change. Oxford University Press, USA. Book Format.

Using a diverse set of case studies that range from medieval banquets to professional wrestling, African kingship and Lakota Sun Dances to the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre and atrocities of the Spanish Civil War, this volume explores the way myths,. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre and atrocities of the Spanish Civil War, this volume explores the way myths, rituals, and other privileged acts of symbolic discourse actively produce, reproduce, and occasionally modify social structures and hierarchies by skillfully manipulating the sentiments of affinity and estrangement that draw people together and drive them apart.