The Seven Day Circle
History and Meaning of the Week

Samenvatting

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.'

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Titel The Seven Day Circle History and Meaning of the Week
Auteur Eviatar Zerubavel
Uitgever The University Of Chicago Press
Jaar Verschenen 1989
Taal en
Pagina's pp. 220
ISBN139780226981659
Onderwerp Week, Zondag

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