Giving Life, Giving Death – Psychoanalysis, Anthropology, Philosophy : Psychoanalysis, Anthropology, Philosophy
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
ISBN-10
1611862086
ISBN-13
9781611862089
Publisher
Michigan State University Press
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Michigan State University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 1st, 2016
Print length
381 Pages
Weight
540 grams
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22.80 x 15.30 x 2.70 cms
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Lucien Scubla argues that structural anthropology sees women as objects of exchange that facilitate alliance-building rather than as vectors of continuity between generations.
Although women alone have the ability to bring children into the world, modern Western thought tends to discount this female prerogative. In Giving Life, Giving Death, 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 Lévi-Strauss, Freud, and Girard, as well as ethnographic and clinical data, Giving Life, Giving Death 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’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.
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