The Seven Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the Week by Eviatar Zerubavel

The Seven Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the Week

Eviatar Zerubavel

220 pages first pub 1985 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology sociology informative slow-paced
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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, unrelat...

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