The Seven Day Circle

The History and Meaning of the Week

By: Eviatar Zerubavel

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Paperback | 15 March 1989 | Edition Number 1

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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, 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.'

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List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: ""Daddy, What's Thursday?""
The Origins of the Seven-Day Week
The Seven-Day Wars
Cultural Variations on a Theme
The Harmonics of Timekeeping
Living with the Week
Experiencing the Week
Culture, Not Nature
Notes
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index
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