{"product_id":"the-imagined-the-imaginary-and-maurice-godelier-9781786637703","title":"The Imagined, the Imaginary and the Symbolic","description":"\u003cb\u003eExploring the close relationship between the real and the symbolic and imaginary\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat you imagined is not always imaginary, but everything that is imaginary is imagined. It is by imagining that people make the impossible become possible. In mythology or religion, however, those things that are imagined are never experienced as being imaginary by believers. The realm of the imagined is even more real than the real; it is super-real, surreal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLévi-Strauss held that \"the real, the symbolic and the imaginary\" are three separate orders. Maurice Godelier demonstrates the contrary: that the real is not separate from the symbolic and the imaginary. For instance, for a portion of humanity, rituals and sacred objects and places attest to the reality and therefore the truth that God, gods or spirits exist. The symbolic enables people to signify what they think and do, encompassing thought, spilling over into the whole body, but also pervading temples, palaces, tools, foods, mountains, the sea, the sky and the earth. It is real. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGodelier's book goes to the strategic heart of the social sciences, for to examine the nature and role of the imaginary and the symbolic is also to attempt to account for the basic components of all societies and ultimately of human existence. And these aspects in turn shape our social and personal identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maurice Godelier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1786637707\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781786637703\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/28\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.40d","brand":"Maurice Godelier","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48440036557055,"sku":"9781786637703","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0b5c75fa-21a0-465a-8c6f-aa75f86244d8.jpg?v=1777180157","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-imagined-the-imaginary-and-maurice-godelier-9781786637703","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}