Discourse and the Construction of Society

Abstract

Using a diverse set of case studies that range from medieval banquets to professional wrestling, African kingship and Lakota Sun Dances to the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre and atrocities of the Spanish Civil War, this volume explores the way myths, rituals, and other privileged acts of symbolic discourse actively produce, reproduce, and occasionally modify social structures and hierarchies by skillfully manipulating the sentiments of affinity and estrangement that draw people together and drive them apart.

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