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The Seven Day Circle : the History and Meaning of the Week by Zerubavel, Eviatar is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Seven Day Circle : the History and Meaning of the Week about?
"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.' Eviatar Zerubavel is a professor of sociology at Rutgers University..Publisher's note
Who reads The Seven Day Circle : the History and Meaning of the Week?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Zerubavel, Eviatar
- Publisher
- Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226981659
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Science, Fiction, Astronomy
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (17 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14