books.google.com - In this bold theoretical work, Bruce Lincoln explores the ways in which myth, ritual, and classification hold human societies together--and how, in times of crisis, they can be used to take a society apart and reconstruct it. Without overlooking the role of coercive force in the maintenance (or overthrow)...https://books.google.com/books/about/Discourse_and_the_Construction_of_Societ.html?id=pensGMOgkv8C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareDiscourse and the Construction of Society