{"product_id":"how-things-count-as-the-same-paperback","title":"How Things Count as the Same - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdam B. Seligman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRobert P. Weller\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 we 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 time. In the process, of course, we also construct difference.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 dynamics 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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).\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 242\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42716505997375,"sku":"9780197546253","price":94.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/c57aa3d87effede2940d58e47b680c56.webp?v=1765075151","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/how-things-count-as-the-same-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}