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Eviatar Zerubavel

The Seven Day Circle

The History and Meaning of the Week

Eviatar Zerubavel

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University of Chicago Press
15 March 1989
Time (chronology), time systems & standards
""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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Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   Reprinted edition
Dimensions:   Height: 22mm,  Width: 17mm,  Spine: 1mm
Weight:   340g
ISBN:   9780226981659
ISBN 10:   0226981657
Pages:   220
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Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  ELT Advanced ,  A / AS level
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Eviatar Zerubavel is professor of sociology at Rutgers University. His books include Hidden Rhythms: Schedules and Calendars in Social Life and Patterns of Time in Hospital Life: A Sociological Perspective.

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