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Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries by Gerard Bouchard, Howard Scott, Les Editions Les Editions du Boreal is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries about?
Myths are commonly associated with illusions or with deceptive, dangerous discourse, and are often perceived as largely the domain of premodern societies. But even in our post-industrial, technologically driven world, myths - Western or Eastern, ancient or modern, religious or scientific - are in fact powerful, pervasive forces. In Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries, G'rard Bouchard conceptualizes myths as vessels of sacred values that transcend the division between primitive and modern. My
Who reads Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Gerard Bouchard, Howard Scott, Les Editions Les Editions du Boreal
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781442631908
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Science, Social Science, Social_sciences
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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