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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Zerubavel, Eviatar
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| Publisher: |
University of Chicago Press
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| Date: |
03/15/1989
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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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.'
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