{"product_id":"how-things-count-as-the-same-memory-mimesis-and-metaphor-9780190888718","title":"How Things Count as the Same: Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor","description":"In their third book together, Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller address a seemingly simple question: What counts as the same? Given the myriad differences that divide one individual from another, why do we recognize anyone as somehow sharing a common fate with us? For that matter, how do\u003cbr\u003ewe live in harmony with groups who may not share the sense of a common fate? Such relationships lie at the heart of the problems of pluralism that increasingly face so much of the world today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNote that counting as the same differs from being the same. Counting as the same is not an empirical question about how much or how little one person shares with another or one event shares with a previous event. Nothing is actually the same. That is why, as humans, we construct sameness all the\u003cbr\u003etime. In the process, of course, we also construct difference. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCreating sameness and difference leaves us with the perennial problem of how to live with difference instead of seeing it as a threat. \u003cem\u003eHow Things Count as the Same\u003c\/em\u003e suggests that there are multiple ways in which we can count things as the same, and that each of them fosters different kinds of group\u003cbr\u003edynamics and different sets of benefits and risks for the creation of plural societies. While there might be many ways to understand how people construct sameness, three stand out as especially important and form the focus of the book's analysis: Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam B. Seligman, Robert P. Weller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/03\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190888718\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAdam B. Seligman\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Religion at Boston University. He is the co-author of \u003cem\u003eRethinking Pluralism\u003c\/em\u003e (2012) and\u003cem\u003e Ritual and Its Consequences\u003c\/em\u003e (2008). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert P. Weller\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Anthropology at Boston University. He is the co-author of \u003cem\u003eRethinking Pluralism\u003c\/em\u003e (2012) and \u003cem\u003eRitual and Its Consequences\u003c\/em\u003e (2008).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40058161135731,"sku":"9.78019E+12","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_2e027a0d-30eb-49f6-a513-e7772ff3ef2b.jpg?v=1651586049","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/how-things-count-as-the-same-memory-mimesis-and-metaphor-9780190888718","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}