In the active voice / Mary Douglas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Douglas, Mary, 1921-2007, author.

Series:

Routledge Revivals

Routledge revivals

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic anthropology.

Food habits.

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published in 1982, this collection of essays is a reproach to a form of the sociology of religion that treats people as the passive objects of impersonal social influences. In opposition to this, the author seeks to assert an active voice style of thinking about the relations between individuals and their cultural environment, whether in economics, history or literary criticism.This collection is assembled with the guiding principle that all the essays touch upon the borderland between economic values and personal judgements of quality. Several essays illustrate the theme from

Contents:

Cover; In the Active Voice; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Passive voice theories in religious sociology; 2 Goods as a system of communication; 3 Money; The contempt of ritual; Raffia cloth distribution in the Lele economy; Primitive rationing; 4 Food as a system of communication; Food studied as a system of communication; Food as an art form; The Food Art Exhibition; Food is not feed; 5 Good taste: review of Pierre Bourdieu, La Distinction; 6 Population control in primitive groups

7 Lele economy compared with the Bushong: a study of economic backwardness8 The exclusion of economics; 9 Cultural bias; 10 Maurice Halbwachs, 1877-1945; 11 Judgments on James Frazer; 12 The debate on the Holy: review of The Making of Late Antiquity; Name index; Subject index

Notes:

"First published in 1982 by Routledge"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-72114-2

0-203-81629-3

1-299-14678-3

1-136-72115-0

9780203816295

OCLC:

827207011