{"product_id":"giving-life-giving-death-psychoanalysis-anthropology-philosophy-9781611862089","title":"Giving Life, Giving Death: Psychoanalysis,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough women alone have the ability to bring children into the world, modern Western thought tends to discount this female prerogative. In \u003ci\u003eGiving Life, Giving Death,\u003c\/i\u003e Lucien Scubla argues that structural anthropology sees women as objects of exchange that facilitate alliance-building rather than as vectors of continuity between generations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamining the work of Lévi-Strauss, Freud, and Girard, as well as ethnographic and clinical data, \u003ci\u003eGiving Life, Giving Death\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Michigan State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041729970519,"sku":"9781611862089","price":22.73,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781611862089.jpg?v=1750951454","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/giving-life-giving-death-psychoanalysis-anthropology-philosophy-9781611862089","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}