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Language: en
Pages: 443
Pages: 443
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-01-12 - Publisher: Routledge
Mary Douglas’s seminal work Purity and Danger (Routledge, 1966) continues to be indispensable reading for both students and scholars today. Marking the 50th a
Language: en
Pages: 202
Pages: 202
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-17 - Publisher: Routledge
Purity and Danger is acknowledged as a modern masterpiece of anthropology. It is widely cited in non-anthropological works and gave rise to a body of applicatio
Language: en
Pages: 299
Pages: 299
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Offering a new and controversial interpretation of Leviticus this book sets out an anthropological perspective on the Jewish purity laws.
Language: en
Pages: 331
Pages: 331
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-17 - Publisher: Routledge
First published in 1992, this volume follows on from the programme for studying risk and blame that was implied in Purity and Danger. The first half of the book
Language: en
Pages: 164
Pages: 164
Type: BOOK - Published: 1986-06-01 - Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Do institutions think? If so, how do they do it? Do they have minds of their own? If so, what thoughts occupy these suprapersonal minds? Mary Douglas delves int