How Things Count As the Same - Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor

What counts as the same? This simple question forms the core of how we constitute ourselves as groups and as individuals. This book suggests that different ways of constructing sameness foster different group dynamics and different benefits and risks for the creation of plural societies.

List of contents

• List of Figures


• Acknowledgements


• Introduction


• 1. What Counts as the Same?


• 2. How Memory Counts as the Same


• 3. Mimesis, or "Society Is Imitation"


• 4. Metaphor


• 5. Framing Gifts


• 6. Memory, Metaphor, and a Double Bind


• 7. Sign, Ground, and Interpretant


• 8. Conclusion


• References Cited


• Index

About the author

Adam B. Seligman is Professor of Religion at Boston University. He is the co-author of Rethinking Pluralism (2012) and Ritual and Its Consequences (2008).

Robert P. Weller is Professor of Anthropology at Boston University. He is the co-author of Rethinking Pluralism (2012) and Ritual and Its Consequences (2008).

Summary

What counts as the same? This simple question forms the core of how we constitute ourselves as groups and as individuals. This book suggests that different ways of constructing sameness foster different group dynamics and different benefits and risks for the creation of plural societies.

Additional text

...absorbing book...

Product details

• Authors: Adam B. Seligman, Adam B. (Professor in the Department of Seligman, Adam B. (Professor in the Department of Religion Seligman, Seligman Adam B., Robert P. Weller, Robert P. (Professor in the Department of Anthropology Weller, Weller Robert P.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9780190888718
• ISBN: 978-0-19-088871-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / Language, comparative religion, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, RELIGION / Philosophy, Religion - World Religions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, Social and cultural anthropology