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Rest days — Hutton Webster

Rest days

Hutton Webster

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 363 pages

Rest Days is a 1916 scholarly essay collection by anthropologist Hutton Webster. It examines the custom of periodic rest days in early societies, tracing how such days related to law, morality, and social custom. It offers a thoughtful historical perspective on an everyday institution.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. REST DAYS
  2. INTRODUCTION
  3. CHAPTER I TABOOED DAYS AT CRITICAL EPOCHS
  4. CHAPTER II TABOOED DAYS AFTER A DEATH AND ON RELATED OCCASIONS
  5. CHAPTER III HOLY DAYS
  6. CHAPTER IV MARKET DAYS
  7. CHAPTER V LUNAR SUPERSTITIONS AND FESTIVALS
  8. CHAPTER VI LUNAR CALENDARS AND THE WEEK
  9. CHAPTER VII THE BABYLONIAN “EVIL DAYS” AND THE SHABATTUM
  10. CHAPTER VIII THE HEBREW SABBATH
  11. CHAPTER IX UNLUCKY DAYS
  12. CONCLUSION
  13. FOOTNOTES
  14. INDEX
  15. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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