Giving Life, Giving Death: Psychoanalysis, Anthropology, Philosophy
(Part of the Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture (SVMC) Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1611862086
ISBN13:9781611862089
Release Date:September 2016
Publisher:Michigan State University Press
Length:420 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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