| Giving Life, Giving Death: Psychoanalysis, Anthropology, Philosophy Contributor(s): Scubla, Lucien (Author), Debevoise, Malcolm B. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1611862086 ISBN-13: 9781611862089 Publisher: Michigan State University Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Humanism - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 128 |
| LCCN: 2015033655 |
| Series: Studies in Violence, Mimesis, & Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9" (1.15 lbs) 420 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Although women alone have the ability to bring children into the world, modern Western thought tends to discount this female prerogative. In Giving Life, Giving Death, Lucien Scubla argues that structural anthropology sees women as objects of exchange that facilitate alliance-building rather than as vectors of continuity between generations. Examining the work of L vi-Strauss, Freud, and Girard, as well as ethnographic and clinical data, Giving Life, Giving Death seeks to explain why, in constructing their master theories, our greatest thinkers have consistently marginalized the cultural and biological fact of maternity. In the spirit of Freud's Totem and Taboo, Scubla constructs an anthropology that posits a common source for family and religion. His wide-ranging study explores how rituals unite violence and the sacred and intertwine the giving of death and the giving of life. |
Contributor Bio(s): Scubla, Lucien: - Lucien Scubla is a researcher at the Institut Marcel Mauss of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is the author of a study on Claude Lévi-Strauss and wrote the preface for the French translation of Social Origins, a posthumous work by A. M. Hocart. |