Interchapter Query: Chapter 6 - 8. From the Temple Corporation to the Family Oikos (Household)
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Interchapter Query: Chapter 6
In Chapter 6: There are 2 mentions of Chapter 8, below.
Note: These are two of the known mentions of Chapter 8 (see this general query) that are (or were) in other chapters (as they were written in earlier edits). Some of these mentions were edited or were cut completely from other chapters but still provide a hint of what was intended to be added to Chapter 8, with your help. Mentions are indicated with code formatting (gray background with pink-color font on regular text, and normal blue-color font with gray background on links). This is an example of a mention of Chapter 8.
First Mention of Chapter 8 in Chapter 6
1. The population was left with the games and carnivals climaxing in the late Roman orgies, which turned the word “Saturnalia” into a synonym for loss of social balance. By the end of antiquity, what began as sacred traditions became secularized and militarized. Most of these traces have been lost in the commercial fairs, civic parades, and games of recent centuries. The archaic festival agenda was passed on to the modern era mainly via the Christian communion and the periodic meals held annually by corporate bodies down through the early centuries of our epoch
(see Chapter 8).
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Second Mention of Chapter 8 in Chapter 6
2. This chapter [Chapter 6] and the previous two chapters [Chapters 4 and 5] have focused on the cosmological grounding of personal expression—writing, music and dance, the arts, and the design of table manners and communal festivals. At their inception these modes of expression were highly formalized. They were formalized in such a way as to subordinate personal individualism to the communal context. Doing this in a cosmological manner provided an “objective” basis for the ethic being communicated. The ideal was not to benefit (or appear to benefit) any one group more than others. The next part of The Creation of Order will continue this theme of equitable distribution. Chapter 7 discussesChanged TextIn Chapter 6’s context, we edited this to “Later sections will explore” (and combined this with the Chapter 8 sentence) to let it work even if Chapter 8’s contents are missing, but we can revert to this if/when Chapter 8 is filled in with this information (in Chapter 6). how ancient communities divided themselves into tribal fractions.
Chapter 8 reviews how individuals who could not fit into these family-based structures—because of infirmity, loss of parents, poverty, or simply because of their alien birth—were set aside as public workers.Chapter 9 then traces how urban sites were first elaborated as sacred cosmological areas with ritual standardization procedures, city layouts, and communal hearths. I show how all these examples of social structuring reflected archaic ideas of rectitude and righteousness.
[See this related query in Chapter 6.]
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