Giving Life, Giving Death

Psychoanalysis, Anthropology, Philosophy
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-61186-208-9
Verlag: Michigan State University Press

Buch, Englisch, 381 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture

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 Lévi-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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scubla, Lucien

Weitere Mitwirkende

Debevoise, Malcolm B

Über Autor(innen)

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.  

Malcolm Debevoise is a three-time winner of the French-American Foundation Prize for nonfiction and has translated more than forty works from French and Italian in all branches of scholarship.