Flesh Becomes Word: A Lexicography of the Scapegoat Or, the History of an Idea
Though its coinage can be traced back to a sixteenth-century translation of Leviticus, the term scapegoat has enjoyed a long and varied history of both scholarly and everyday uses. While WilliamTyndale employed it to describe one of two goats chosen by lot to escape the Day of Atonement sacrifices with its life, the expression was soon far more widely used to name victims of false accusation and unwarranted punishment. As such, the scapegoat figures prominently in contemporary theories of violence, from its elevation by Frazer to a ritual category in his ethnological opus The Golden Bough to its pivotal roles in projects as seemingly at odds…
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- ISBN: 978-1-61186-063-4
- EAN: 9781611860634
- Produktnummer: 13512892
- Verlag: Michigan State Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 200 S.
- Masse: H22.6 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.3 cm 295 g
- Gewicht: 295
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David Dawson teaches at the University of Costa Rica in San Jose. He wrote Flesh Becomes Word while a Visiting Scholar at Stanford's Department of French and Italian.
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