In this bold theoretical work, Bruce Lincoln explores the ways in which myth, ritual, and classification hold human societies together—and how, in times of crisis, they can be used to take a society apart and reconstruct it. Without overlooking the role of coercive force in the maintenance (or overthrow) of social structures, Lincoln argues his thesis with compelling illustrations drawn from such diverse areas as Platonic philosophy, the Upanishads of India, African rituals of kingship, ancient Celtic banquets, English gentlemen's clubs, the Iranian Revolution, the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, professional wrestling, and the Spanish Civil War.
Professional wrestling, Lincoln shows, can be viewed as a drama of classification in which the American dream of opportunity is set forth, challenged, and finally firmly reestablished in good-versus-evil encounters between wrestlers categorized by their relative "Americanness." The exhumation of nuns' mummified corpses by leftist forces and their sympathizers during the Spanish Civil War, often dismissed by liberal historians as an embarrassing aberration, is more readily understandable as a ritual in which the Spanish Catholic Church, which had long played the role of "the religion of the status quo," was symbolically exposed as corrupt in both a moral and concretely physiological sense.
Discourse and the Construction of Society draws on work in the fields of history, anthropology, sociology, religious studies, classics, indology, and semiotics to demonstrate the multiple uses of myth, ritual, and symbolic classification in effecting ideological persuasion and evoking the sentiments that bind people to one another within distinct social groupings while separating them from others, who are thereby defined as outsiders. This wide-ranging interdisciplinary study provides challenging new insights into the complex dynamics of social cohesion and change.
Explores the ways in which myth, ritual, and classification hold human societies together.

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Lincoln, Bruce

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Oxford Institute for Energy Studies

German Historical Institute London

Oxford University Press USA, New York, 1989

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

New York, New York State, 1989

1st, 1989

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Bibliography: p. 205-217.
Chapters originally written in Italian and English 1980-1984.
Includes index.

subject: Social structure; Myth; Ritual; Classification; Symbolism; Social change

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topic: Social structure; Myth; Ritual; Classification; Symbolism; Social change

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Bookmarks:
1. (p1) Introduction
1.1. (p2) Force and Discourse
1.2. (p3) Myth, Ritual, and Ideology
1.3. (p4) Classification and Counterclassification
1.4. (p5) Sentiment and Society
1.5. (p6) On the Writing of this Book
2. (p7) PART I MYTH
2.1. (p8) 1 Myth, Sentiment, and the Construction of Social Forms
2.1.1. (p9) The Putney Debates and the Power of the Past
2.1.2. (p10) Trotsky and the Spanish Revolution
2.1.3. (p11) Ancestral Invocations and Segmentary Lineages
2.1.4. (p12) Myth and the Construction of Social Borders
2.1.5. (p13) Toward a Redefinition of History and Myth
2.2. (p14) 2 The Politics of Myth
2.2.1. (p15) The Instrumentality of the Past
2.2.2. (p16) Variation and Contestation
2.2.3. (p17) Myth, Countermyth, and the Iranian Revolution
2.3. (p18) 3 Competing Uses of the Future in the Present
3. (p22) PART II RITUAL
3.1. (p23) 4 Ritual, Rebellion, Resistance: Rethinking the Swazi Ncwala
3.1.1. (p24) On Ritual and Social Stability
3.1.2. (p25) The Ncwala Summarized
3.1.3. (p26) Scholarly Approaches to the Ncwala
3.1.4. (p27) The Problem of the Right-hand Insila
3.1.5. (p28) The King's Powers of Execution
3.1.6. (p29) Aspects of the Reign of Sobhuza II
3.1.7. (p30) The Afternoon of the Great Day
3.1.8. (p31) Domination, Resistance and the Politics of the Colonial Ncwala
3.2. (p32) 5 Banquets and Brawls: Aspects of Ceremonial Meals
3.2.1. (p33) The Royal Feast at Tara
3.2.2. (p34) Battles over the "Champion's Portion"
3.2.3. (p35) Beef and Liberty
3.3. (p36) 6 Festivals and Massacres: Reflections on St. Bartholomew's Day
3.3.1. (p37) Ritual and the Deconstruction of Social Forms
3.3.2. (p38) Background to a Massacre
3.3.3. (p39) A Royal Wedding: The Failed Ritual of Social Integration
3.3.4. (p40) A Ritual Massacre: The Feast of St. Bartholomew, 1572
3.3.5. (p41) Analysis of a Socioritual Drama
3.4. (p42) 7 Revolutionary Exhumations in Spain
4. (p49) PART III CLASSIFICATION
4.1. (p50) 8 The Tyranny of Taxonomy
4.1.1. (p51) The Classificatory Logic of a Domestic Arrangement
4.1.2. (p52) Taxonomic Structure and Hierarchic Rank
4.1.3. (p53) Multimodular Classification
4.2. (p54) 9 The Dialectics of Symbolic Inversion
4.2.1. (p55) A Provocative Inversion and the Disruption of Society: Duchamp's Fountain
4.2.2. (p56) Inversion, Counterinversion, and Political Reform: Menenius Agrippa and the Plebeian Secession
4.2.3. (p57) Dialectic Manipulations and Preservation of the Status Quo:"All-Star Wrestling"
4.3. (p58) 10 The Uses of Anomaly
5. (p63) Unconcluding Postscripts
6. (p64) Notes
7. (p65) Bibliography
8. (p66) Acknowledgments
9. (p67) Index

theme: Social structure; Myth; Ritual; Classification; Symbolism; Social change

Front Cover......Page 1
Copywright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 14
PART I. MYTH......Page 24
1. Myth, Sentiment, and the Construction of Social Forms......Page 26
2. The Politics of Myth......Page 38
3. Competing Uses of the Future in the Present......Page 49
PART II. RITUAL......Page 62
4. Ritual, Rebellion, Resistance: Rethinking the Swazi Ncwala......Page 64
5. Banquets and Brawls: Aspects of Ceremonial Meals......Page 86
6. Festivals and Massacres: ReHections on St. Bartholomew's Day......Page 100
7. Revolutionary Exhumations in Spain......Page 114
PART III. CLASSIFICATION......Page 140
8. The Tyranny of Taxonomy......Page 142
9. The Dialectics of Symbolic Inversion......Page 153
10. The Uses of Anomaly......Page 171
Unconduding Postscripts......Page 182
Notes......Page 186
Bibliography......Page 216
Acknowledgments......Page 230
Index......Page 232

In this bold theoretical work, Bruce Lincoln explores the ways in which myth, ritual, and classification hold human societies together--and how, in times of crisis, they can be used to take a society apart and reconstruct it. Without overlooking the role of coercive force in the maintenance (or overthrow) of social structures, Lincoln argues his thesis with compelling illustrations drawn from such diverse areas as Platonic philosophy, the Upanishads of India, ancient Celtic banquets, professional wrestling, and the Spanish Civil War. This wide-ranging interdisciplinary study--which draws on works in history, semiotics, anthropology, sociology, classics, and indology--offers challenging new insights into the complex dynamics of social cohesion and change.

As the English Civil War (1642-48) drew to a close, it was evident to all that, with the overthrow of Charles I, major changes were likely in the nature of politics and society alike.

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