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The elephant in the room : silence and denial in everyday life / Eviatar Zerubavel.
LIBRA HM1041 .Z47 2006
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zerubavel, Eviatar.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Denial (Psychology)--Social aspects.
- Denial (Psychology).
- Avoidance (Psychology)--Social aspects.
- Avoidance (Psychology).
- Silence.
- Secrecy.
- Social psychology.
- Social aspects.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xi, 162 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- Citing the fable of the Emperor's New Clothes as a classic example of a situation where everyone refuses to acknowledge an obvious truth, Zerubavel sheds new light on the social and political underpinnings of silence and denial--the keeping of "open secrets."
- Contents:
- A conspiracy of silence
- The rules of denial
- The politics of denial
- The social structure of denial
- Breaking the silence
- Some things are better left unsaid
- The trouble with elephants.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-149) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0195187172
- OCLC:
- 61309257
- Publisher Number:
- 9780195187175
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