Giving Life, Giving Death (eBook)

Psychoanalysis, Anthropology, Philosophy

Lucien Scubla (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
381 Seiten
Michigan State University Press (Verlag)
978-1-62895-267-4 (ISBN)

Infos

<DIV>Although women alone have the ability to bring children into the world, modern Western thought tends to discount this female prerogative. In <I>Giving Life, Giving Death,</I> Lucien Scubla argues that structural anthropology sees women as objects of exchange that facilitate alliance-building rather than as vectors of continuity between generations. Examining the work of L&eacute;vi-Strauss, Freud, and Girard, as well as ethnographic and clinical data, <I>Giving Life, Giving Death</I> seeks to explain why, in constructing their master theories, our greatest thinkers have consistently marginalized the cultural and biological fact of maternity. In the spirit of Freud&rsquo;s Totem and Taboo, Scubla constructs an anthropology that posits a common source for family and religion. His wide-ranging study explores how rituals unite violence and the sacred and intertwine the giving of death and the giving of life.<BR /> &#160;</DIV>

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2016
• Übersetzer: Malcolm B. DeBevoise
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• ISBN-10: 1-62895-267-9 / 1628952679
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62895-267-4 / 9781628952674