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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 390
Fabric Type: 9780415289955
Fax Number: 1
Legal Disclaimer: 0415289955
Maximum Color Depth: TAYLOR
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Region Code: 272
Total External Bays Free: November 15, 2002
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Features:- ISBN13: 9780415289955
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Mary Douglas is a central figure within British social anthropology. Studying under Evans-Pritchard at Oxford immediately after the war, she formed part of the group of anthropologists who established social anthropology's standing in the world of scholarship. Her works, spanning the second half of the twentieth century, have been widely read and her theories applied across the social sciences and humanities.
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Even during the busy holiday season, the book arrived as promised and ON TIME! Great job!
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This is one of the most famous and still relevant works about what are behind any given cultures concepts on cleanliness and impurity. Written in an accesible language so even interested laypersons can benefit from Mary Douglas' scholarly research. If you are intersted in Biblical criticism and/or anthropology - this book belongs in your bookshelf. It is simply a classic.
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This book is considered a classic and laid groundwork for future anthropological work in religion and belief. Though some of Douglas' positions have been criticized or disputed in later years, this book is important at least in providing a snapshot of anthropology in her time and in understanding some of the fundamentals which underscore more modern research.
Having said that, it can be difficult to read at times, but is immensely interesting and at the least will open your eyes to ... Read More
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Why do we let those close to us lick the same spoon, or eat off the same dish? Why kiss away tears but not snot? How do we learn to live with some filth and yet recoil at other dirt? And how does this all relate to "primitive" ritual, magical belief, and ethical culture?
This book manages to be accessible for the non-anthropologist or historian of religion, yet too densely argued and scattered for the novice. How can it be both? Douglas writes in a no-nonsense style that I enjoyed, when ... Read More
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This may be an entertaining book if you want to read stories of foreign cultures and habits, but I don't think it meets the scientific standards of anthropology. The subtitle of the book is "an analysis of the concepts of pollution and taboo", but this is an overstatement. You will not find any true analysis in it. Every time the author approaches an analytic question or theory, she soon lets go of her thread and diverges into another irrelevant story. While reading this book, I asked myself several ... Read More
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