The elephant in the room : silence and denial in everyday life / / Eviatar Zerubavel.

The fable of the Emperor's New Clothes is a classic example of a conspiracy of silence, a situation where everyone refuses to acknowledge an obvious truth. But the denial of social realities -- whether incest, alcoholism, corruption, or even genocide -- is no fairy tale. In this book, the autho...

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Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:xi, 162 p. :; ill.
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