Mary Douglas : collected works.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Douglas, Mary, 1921-2007.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Standardized Title:

Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology.

Sociology.

Physical Description:

12 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Collected works

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.

Summary:

In "Purity and Danger" Mary Douglas identifies the concern for purity as a key theme at the heart of every society. In lively and lucid prose she explains its relevance for every reader by revealing its wide-ranging impact on our attitudes to society, values, cosmology and knowledge. The book has been hugely influential in many areas of debate - from religion to social theory. But perhaps its most important role is to offer each reader a new explanation of why people behave in the way they do. With a specially commissioned introduction by the author which assesses the continuing significance of the work thirty-five years on, this "Routledge Classics" edition will ensure that "Purity and Danger" continues to challenge and question well into the new millennium.

Contents:

v. 1. The Lele of the Kasai

v. 2. Purity and danger

v. 3. Natural symbols

v. 4. Rules and meanings

v. 5 Implicit meanings

v. 6. The world of goods

v. 7. Edward Evans-Pritchard

v. 8. Essays in the sociology of perception

v. 9. Food in the social order

v. 10. Constructive drinking

v. 11. Risk acceptibility according to the social sciences

v. 12. Risk and blame.

Notes:

Facsimile reprints of previously published editions.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

0415283973

0415291046

0415291054

0415291062

0415291070

0415291089

0415291097

0415291100

0415291119

0415291127

0415291135

0415291143

0415291151

OCLC:

50100890