The Seven Day Circle The History and Meaning of the Week
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"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 exists-and there have been many cultures where it doesn't-it 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.'
Book information
ISBN: | 9780226981659 |
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
Imprint: | The University of Chicago Press |
Pub date: | 01 Mar 1989 |
DEWEY: | 529.1 |
DEWEY edition: | 19 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 206 |
Weight: | 324g |
Height: | 229mm |
Width: | 155mm |
Spine width: | 12mm |