The Seven Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the Week

Eviatar Zerubavel

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UPC:
9780226981659
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
3/15/1989
Author:
Eviatar Zerubavel
Language:
english
Edition:
First Prinitng
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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 existsand there have been many cultures where it doesn'tit 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.'